At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life

by Michael E. Smith

Book Overview

At Home with the Aztecs provides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice. This new approach offers an opportunity to humanize the Aztecs, moving past the popular stereotype of sacrificial maniacs to demonstrate that these were successful and prosperous communities. Michael Smith also engagingly describes the scientific, logistic and personal dimensions of archaeological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138100749
• ISBN13: 9781138100749
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"