64 Citations
The genetic impact of Aztec imperialism: ancient mitochondrial DNA evidence from Xaltocan, Mexico.
- HistoryAmerican journal of physical anthropology
- 2012
This study indicates that the Aztec expansion may have been associated with significant demographic and genetic changes within Xaltocan, and suggests that the matrilines present in the households were replaced following theAztec conquest.
Transaction Costs and Economic Growth under Common Legal System: State-Level Evidence from Mexico
- EconomicsEconomics & Politics
- 2019
This paper examines the contribution of administrative and procedural transaction costs to economic growth under common legal system. We show that administrative and procedural costs vary quite a lot…
Landschaft, pueblo and altepetl: a consideration of landscape in sixteenth-century Central Mexico
- Political Science
- 2015
In 1521, the Spanish conquistadors defeated the Nahuas of Central Mexico. Spain was ruled at the time by the House of Habsburg, and its administrators became familiar with the German concept of…
Between conquest and independence: Real wages and demographic change in Spanish America, 1530–1820
- Economics, Political Science
- 2012
Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present
- Political Science
- 2005
Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers…
Ancient DNA Studies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
- Political ScienceGenes
- 2020
How aDNA research has helped discern population dynamics patterns in the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican context is reviewed, how it supports archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological conclusions, and how it offers new working hypotheses are reviewed.
The Mexican Mission
- History
- 2019
between the illustrated Nahuatl lexicon of human anatomy and Sahagún’s lament for the loss of life and the fragmentation of the body politic in the midst of the 1576 plague. This book is an important…