"The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical—and metaphysical—place via their built environment. Themes in ..."
" This volume explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors to this volume consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical—and metaphysical—place via their built environment. T ..."
" This volume had its beginnings in the two-day colloquium, "Rethinking Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. Rather than approaching these questions through the notions of migrations and conquests, these essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economi ..."
"A work of both consensus and innovation based upon extensive archaeological research, "Ancient Tollan: Tula and the Toltec Heartland" studies Mesoamerica's problem cityTula, or Tollan, seat of the Toltec state. Along with Teotihuancan and Tenochtitlan, Tula was one of the most important prehispanic urban centers in Highland Central Mexico, reaching the height of its influence during the early Postclassic period between A.D. 900-1200. C ..."
Tula of the Toltecs(1st Edition) Excavations and Survey by Dan M. Healan Hardcover, 313 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87745-209-6, ISBN: 0-87745-209-1
Tula of the Toltecs Excavations and Survey by Dan M. Healan 293 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-104-3, ISBN: 1-58729-104-5
"... by Bertha P. Dutton, curator and research associate of the Museum of New
Mexico, that was published in El Palacio in 1955. More than thirty years later Dr.
Dutton's excellent synthesis of Acosta's explorations at Tula still stands as one of
the best general introductions to the site, one which I frequently recommend to
students and other interested parties. I joined the Missouri project in 1971 as a
graduate student at the Univ ..."
Memoir Ser. Surface Delineation of Functional Areas at a Mississippian Ceremonial Center by Dan M. Healan 49 Pages, Published 1972 ISBN-13: 978-0-943414-26-3, ISBN: 0-943414-26-1