About the Author

Deborah L. Nichols is the William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, among other volumes. She has received both the Society for American Archaeology's Distinguished Service Award and the American Anthropological Association's President's Award.

Frances F. Berdan is professor emerita of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. She has authored, co-authored, or co-edited thirteen books and more than a hundred articles, including the four-volume Codex Mendoza. Her most recent book is Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory.

Michael E. Smith is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and six books on the Aztecs, including At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life.

Reviews

A superb new contribution to the literature on premodern goods and economies, and Aztec society in particular.""—David M. Carballo, author of Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico

""An essential contribution to Mesoamerican studies, and a statement of progress toward understanding premodern economy and society generally.""—Stephen Kowalewski, co-author of Origins of the Ñuu Archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico