postclassic

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• As trading flourished during the Postclassic period (900-1520), cities throughout Mesoamerica were drawn into an increasingly "international" world, with goods

  Academic text (1991)

• This volume reports on excavations conducted in 1985-1986 at three Late Postclassic sites in western Morelos: Capilco, a simple village without elite or ceremonial architecture.

  Academic text (1997)

• The first thing I come across is a large chunk of charred Postclassic (A.D. 900-1500) pottery.

  Academic text (2004)

• At Ocotelulco, Tlaxcala, Jose Eduardo Contreras Martinez recovered a remarkable Late Postclassic polychrome wall painting.

  Academic text (1997)

• Maya Postclassic State Formation: Segmentary Lineage Migration in Advancing Frontiers. Fox. (B. L. Stark) 14(2):230.

  Academic text (1992)

• My teachers, Jeremy Sabloff of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and William Rathje of Stanford University, argued that the Late Postclassic Maya were reallocating resources away from public architecture and into trade, commerce, and comfortable residences.

  Academic text (2007)

• Archaeologists, including Thompson, who wrote popular, accessible books about Maya archaeology, called the last years of the Postclassic, just preceding the Spanish conquest, the Decadent period (A.D. 1350-1500) because of the inferior quality of the art and architecture of the time.

  Academic text (2007)

• These findings suggest the following sequence: soil formation into the Preclassic period; soil erosion sometime before the Early Classic buried soils up to 100 centimeters; undisturbed soil formation during the Early and Middle Classic hiatus; accelerated soil erosion again in the Late Classic period; and minimal change during the Postclassic period.

  Academic text (2002)

• While the most widely accepted theory is that erosion was caused by overpopulation in the Postclassic (A.D. 900-1520) Tarascan Empire, Fisher found the erosion was more significant after the Tarascans abandoned the land during Spanish occupation, suggesting their terraced fields served an important ecological function.

  Academic text (2008)

• This artifact is a stunning example of art from the postclassic period of Mesoamerican history.

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