Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New WorldThe presence of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, because they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their diverse functions may have been, they remain the only tangible indication of how extinct American societies were regionally organised. Contributors to this volume, originally published in 1991, describe past studies of prehispanic roads in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, paying special attention to their significance for economic and political organisation, as well as regional communication. |
Contents
regional organization | 4 |
Paths and roads in evolutionary perspective | 10 |
Roads routes and ties that bind | 17 |
Observations about research on pre | 28 |
METHODOLOGICAL | 34 |
Analysis of prehistoric roadways in Chaco | 42 |
trans | 53 |
the relative | 66 |
REGIONAL STUDIES | 99 |
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Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World Charles D. Trombold No preview available - 1991 |
Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World Charles D. Trombold No preview available - 2011 |
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