Book contents
- Early Mesoamerican Cities
- Early Mesoamerican Cities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Oaxaca’s Formative Period Cities and Their Implications for Early Urbanism in Mesoamerica
- Chapter Three Early Urbanization in the Formative Gulf Lowlands, Mexico
- Chapter Four Patterns of Early Urbanism in the Southern Maya Lowlands
- Chapter Five The Role of Middle Preclassic Placemaking in the Creation of Late Preclassic Yucatecan Cities
- Chapter Six The City over the City
- Chapter Seven The New Normal
- Chapter Eight The Nature of Early Urbanism at Teotihuacan
- Chapter Nine Art and Urbanity in Late Formative Mesoamerica
- Chapter Ten Landscape and Leadership in Mesoamerican Cities
- Chapter Eleven Experimental Cities?
- References
- Index
Chapter Six - The City over the City
Kaminaljuyu and Urbanism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2021
- Early Mesoamerican Cities
- Early Mesoamerican Cities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Oaxaca’s Formative Period Cities and Their Implications for Early Urbanism in Mesoamerica
- Chapter Three Early Urbanization in the Formative Gulf Lowlands, Mexico
- Chapter Four Patterns of Early Urbanism in the Southern Maya Lowlands
- Chapter Five The Role of Middle Preclassic Placemaking in the Creation of Late Preclassic Yucatecan Cities
- Chapter Six The City over the City
- Chapter Seven The New Normal
- Chapter Eight The Nature of Early Urbanism at Teotihuacan
- Chapter Nine Art and Urbanity in Late Formative Mesoamerica
- Chapter Ten Landscape and Leadership in Mesoamerican Cities
- Chapter Eleven Experimental Cities?
- References
- Index
Summary
The history of urbanism in the Valley of Guatemala stretches over nearly 3,000 years, beginning soon after 1000 BCE and continuing until 900 CE. Kaminaljuyu (Fig. 6.1) was one of the largest cities in the Maya Highlands in the Classic period, but its apogee was in the Late and Terminal Preclassic periods (ca. 400 BCE–300 CE), when it was the largest of a network of early city-states throughout the highlands and along the Pacific Coast. As with other cases discussed in this volume, the Late Preclassic climax at Kaminaljuyu had a long developmental history, with antecedents in the Valley of Guatemala that extend back to the early Middle Preclassic period.
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- Early Mesoamerican CitiesUrbanism and Urbanization in the Formative Period, pp. 121 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022