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Tula, and wheeled animal effigies in Mesoamerica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard A. Diehl  and
Margaret D. Mandeville
Richard A. Diehl
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, University, AL 35486, USA
Margaret D. Mandeville
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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For all an archaeologist's or anthropologist's professional training in how ancient societies organize themselves with ‘appropriate technologies’, it is not easy to grasp how very different those ancient civilizations were from any society we have experienced. Nowhere is this clearer than in Mesoamerica, where cities and empires had no need of the ‘basics’ of urban life as we know it. One of those ‘basics’ is wheels, discussed here in the sole, small context in which they are commonplace in pre-Columbian America.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 232 , July 1987 , pp. 239 - 246
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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