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Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1977.
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Uses archaeological records and documentary sources to chronicle the history of the Mesoamerican culture from the fall of Teotihuacan to the rise and collapse of Tula.
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LibraryThing member AndreasJ
The Aztecs left a confused mass of traditions concerning the Toltecs, who they regarded as their great predecessors. Davies tried to sift out what may be historically reliable from the purely mythical, that which grew in the telling, and the simply confused; and correlate it with what archaeology
The results are ingenious but do not inspire great confidence in their accuracy. The tendency since wrote seems to be ever greater pessimism that anything reliable can be extracted at all. I found the book interesting enough, though.
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can tell us. The results are ingenious but do not inspire great confidence in their accuracy. The tendency since wrote seems to be ever greater pessimism that anything reliable can be extracted at all. I found the book interesting enough, though.
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xviii, 533 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0806113944 / 9780806113944