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An update on Teotihuacan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

George L. Cowgill
George L. Cowgill*
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*School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-2402, USA (Email: cowgill@asu.edu)
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Abstract

At Antiquity's invitation the author offers this account of recent research and current objectives at the famous ancient Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan. After a century of investigation, archaeologists are beginning to see something of the composition and preoccupations of one of America's first urban societies, and how it began, flourished and ended.

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MesoamericaTeotihuacanfirst millennium CEstate formationstate collapsegovernanceiconographywriting

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Antiquity , Volume 82 , Issue 318 , December 2008, pp. 962 - 975
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