Table of Contents

List of contributors; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Editor's preface; Section I. Theoretical Considerations: 1. An introduction to the study of ancient New World road networks Charles D. Trombold; 2. Paths and roads in evolutionary perspective Timothy Earle; 3. Roads, routes and ties that bind Ross Hassig; 4. Observations about research on prehistoric roads in South America John Hyslop; Section II. Methodological Considerations: 5. Photointerpretation of Chaco Roads Margaret S. Obenauf; 6. Analysis of prehistoric roadways in Chaco Canyon using remotely sensed digital data Thomas L. Sever and David W. Wagner; 7. Prehistoric footpaths in Costa Rica: transportation and communication in a tropical rainforest Payson Sheets and Thomas L. Sever; 8. Cross-cutting relationships: the relative dating of ancient roads on the north coast of Peru Colleen M. Beck; 9. Network analysis and the study of past regional organisation Larry J. Gorenflo and Thomas L. Bell; Section III. Regional Studies: 10. Political, economic, and demographic implications of the Chaco road network Frances Joan Mathien; 11. The prehistoric road network at Pueblo Alto, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico Thomas C. Windes; 12. The Sonoran connection: road and trail networks in the prehistoric period Carroll L. Riley, and Joni L. Manson; 13. Causeways in the context of strategic planning in the La Quemada region, Zacatecas, Mexico Charles D. Trombold; 14. Xanhari: protohistoric Tarascan routes Shirley Gorenstien and Helen Perlstein Pollard; 15. The influence and legacy of Teotihuacan on regional routes and urban planning Thomas H. Charlton; 16. The structure of the Aztec transport network Robert S. Santley; 17. Roads, thoroughfares and avenues of power at Xochicalco, Mexico Kenneth Hirth; 18. Sacbes of the northern Maya William J. Folan; 19. Prehistoric roads and causeways of lowland tropical America William M. Denevan; 20. The association between roads and polities: evidence for a Wari road system in Peru Katharina J. Schrieber; 21. The Chincha roads: economics and symbolism Dwight T. Wallace.

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This 1991 volume describes past studies of prehispanic roads in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America.