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Further Reading

A selection of resources for those who would like to explore further.

Lienzo de Quauhquechollan

  • Asselbergs, Florine. Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan; A Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala [supplement]. Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, 2008.
  • Matthew, Laura E., and Michel R. Oudijk, editors. Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c2007.
  • Ortiz, Ana Lucía, Pierina Piedrasanta, Andrea Tunarosa, et al. Quauhquechollan : El Lienzo de la Conquista. Guatemala, Guatemala: Universidad Francisco Marroquín, c2007
  • Restall, Matthew, and Florine Asselbergs, compilers. Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007.

Mesoamerica: War and Warriors

  • Acuña, René. Códice Fernández Leal. 1st ed. Tlalpan, Mexico : Ediciones Toledo, INAH, 1991.
  • Boone, Elizabeth Hill. The Codex Magliabechiano and the Lost Prototype of the Magliabechiano Group. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
  • Codex Magliabechiano CL. XIII. 3 (B. R. 232), Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze. Manuscript. Magl. XIII, 3. Introduction and summary by Ferdinand Anders. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1970.
  • Codex Telleriano-Remensis ; manuscrit mexicain du cabinet de Ch. M. Le Tellier, archevêque de Reims, à la Bibliothèque nationale (ms. mexicain no. 385) reproduit en photochromographie aux frais du duc de Loubat et précéde d'une introduction contenant la transcription complète des anciens commentaires hispano-mexicains par le Dr. E. T. Hamy. Paris, 1899.
  • Hassig, Russ. War and Society in Ancient Mesoamerica. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992.
  • Lameiras Olvera, José. El encuentro de la piedra y el acero la Mesoamérica militarista del siglo XVI que se opuso a la irrupción europea. Zamora, Mich.: El Colegio de Michoacán, c1994.
  • Loubat, J. F. Codex Magliabecchiano XIII. 3 : Manuscrit mexicain post-Colombien de la Bibliothèque nationale de Florence. Rome: Danesi, 1904.

Moche Archive: Warriors

The Moche Archive of photographs and drawings, created by Christopher Donnan and Donna McClelland and now housed at Dumbarton Oaks, is a remarkable resource for the study of Moche civilization. Contact the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives for permission to consult or publish images from the Christopher Donnan Moche Archive.

  • Alva, Walter, and Christopher B. Donnan. Royal Tombs of Sipán. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, c1993.
  • Cáceres Macedo, Justo. Cerámicas del Perú prehispánico. Lima, Peru: Justo Cáceres Macedo, c2005.
  • Donnan, Christopher B. Moche Art and Iconography. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, University of California, 1976.
  • ———. Moche Art of Peru: Pre-Columbian Symbolic Communication. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1978.
  • ———. Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
  • Jiménez Borja, Arturo. Moche. Prologue by Hildebrando Castro Pozo. Lima, Peru: Talleres gráficos de la Editorial Lumen, 1938.
  • Larco Hoyle, Rafael. Los mochicas. Lima, Peru: Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera, 2001.
  • McClelland, Donna, Donald McClelland, and Christopher B. Donnan. Moche Fineline Painting from San José de Moro. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, c2007.

Defensive Structures

  • Arkush, Elizabeth N. Hillforts of the Ancient Andes: Colla Warfare, Society, and Landscape. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c2011.
  • Bricker, Victoria Reifler, gen. ed. Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
  • Gutiérrez Mendoza, Gerardo. Arqueología de la antigua provincía de Tlapa: desde el período Arcaico hasta la indepencencia de México. Mexico: Letra Antigua; Municipio de Tlapa de Comonfort, 2010.
  • Inomata, Takeshi. Settlements and Fortifications of Aguateca: Archaeological Maps of a Petexbatun Center. 1st ed. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009.
  • Lau, George F. Andean Expressions: Art and Archaeology of the Recuay Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c2011.
  • Mendoza, Ruben G. “Conquest Polities of the Mesoamerican Epiclassic: Circum-Basin Regionalism, A.D. 550–850.” PhD diss., University of Arizona, 1992.