Life and Death in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan
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A01=Rebecca Storey
American Indians
archaeology
artifacts
Author_Rebecca Storey
Category=NKD
ceramics
ceremonial complex
climate
Early Archaic
Eastern United States
environment
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eq_isMigrated=2
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excavations
farming
fauna
fishing
geology
habitats
hunting
Indigenous societies
material culture
Middle Archaic
Middle Woodland
migration
mounds
Native Americans
Paleoindians
plants
Pleistocene
pottery
projectile points
public archaeology
settlement
shell middens
shellfish
southeastern archaeology
subsistence
violence
warfare
water transportation
Woodland period
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- ISBN 9780817305598
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 162 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 1992
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cities arose independently in both the Old World and in the pre-Columbian New World. Lacking written records, many of these New World cities can be studied only through archaeology, including the earliest pre-Columbian city, Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of the largest cities of its time (150BC-AD750). Thus, an important question is how similar New World sites are to their Old World counterparts. Before recent times, the dense populations of cities made them unhealthy places because of poor sanitation and inadequate food supplies. Storey's research shows clearly that although Teotihuacan was a very different environment and culture from 17th-century London, these two great cities are comparable in terms of health problems and similar death rates.
