This title examines the structure, scale and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the M

The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.

Trading was the favorite occupation of the Maya, according to early Spanish observers such as Fray Diego de Landa (1566). Yet scholars of the Maya have long dis

Volume 37 of REA features eleven original articles organized in four different sections, each focusing on a specific, popular and significant theme in economic

Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models