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Mexico(7th Edition)
From the Olmecs to the Aztecs (Ancient Peoples and Places)
by Michael D. Coe, Rex Koontz
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-29076-7, ISBN: 0-500-29076-8

"“Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library Journal Michael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz. The seventh edition incorporates new findings in a number of disciplines. Th ..."

Mexico
From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
by Michael D. Coe, Rex Koontz
256 Pages, Published 2013 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-77159-4, ISBN: 0-500-77159-6

"Robert Heizer calculated that this elite center must have been supported by a hinterland population of at least 18,000 people; the main pyramid alone probably took some 800,000 persondays to construct. Heizer and his colleague Philip Drucker once wrote that the ... brandishing war clubs. Also typical are the socalled “altars.” The finest is Altar 5, on which the central figure emerges from the niche holding a jaguar baby in his arm ..."

Mexico
From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
by Michael D. Coe, Rex Koontz
256 Pages, Published 2013 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-77082-5, ISBN: 0-500-77082-4

""This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years."

The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall(1st Edition)
Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
by Robert Lloyd Williams, Rex Koontz
Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-74438-7, ISBN: 0-292-74438-2

"The pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pictograms on hand-painted, screen-fold manuscripts known as codices. Functioning rather like movie production storyboards, the codices served as outlines of oral traditions to stimulate the memories of bards who knew the complete narratives, which were sung, danced, and performed at elite func ..."