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information should also be included in ecological analyses in order to increase their scope and effectiveness.

In the last section of the book, the contributors approach their material from other perspectives. Millon, an urban archaeologist, considers Teotihuacan’s evolution and distinctiveness as weil as the factors that made it the “most urbanized center of its time in the New World”. He does not see how ecological or ideological analysis alone can explain the transformation that led to Teotihuacan’s urban civilization. Instead, he attempts to understand this pre-eminent economic and religious centre by examining its internal residential and occupational structure. Calnek, working with ethnohistorical sources, presents a much more detailed description of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and its internal social and economic structure than could be derived solely from analysis of archaeological materials. Diehl looks at the relationship between advanced societies in the Valley of Mexico and Mesoamerica in general and the less complex societies in northern, north-western and western Mexico.

The book deserved the talents of a professional cartographer. The maps are crude, garish, confusing and detract from the overall clear presentation of material in the text. Much research has been carried out on estimates of the pre-Hispanic population of Central Mexico. I would have liked to have seen an attempt in this book to compare Late Horizon (A.D. 1200-I 520) archaeological evidence of population distribution to published population estimates obtained from historical sources, such as the estimates made by Cook and Borah and others. Nevertheless, in general, readers will be very pleased with the content, scope, and treatment of topics in this fine book.

University of California, Berkeley BERNARD NIETSCHMANN

Shorter notices

G. R. CRONE, Maps and their Makers (Folkestone: Dawson, 5th edn, 1978. Pp. viii + 152. &lO*OO)

After twenty-five years this standard work enters its fifth edition in a completely new large format. The text remains largely unchanged with only one or two new paragraphs in most chapters, but there are four notable additions which render it a more rounded and balanced introduction to cartographic history: a new chapter on hydrographic charts and atlases; a substantial revision of the discussion of the British contribution to 1800; an expanded chapter on atlases and thematic maps; a coda on contemporary cartography. These are all good general surveys (though the eighteenth century gets rather short measure) and the discussion of nineteenth- and twentieth-century atlases, usually neglected, is especially welcome. The primary emphasis on the maps themselves rather than the methods of their production gives the book its clear focus. It may seem churlish to draw attention to faults of production. Nevertheless, this book has been upgraded from a modest student text book and generously illustrated, so it particularly behoves a publisher of cartographic works to ensure that the quality of illustrations is high. Here quantity wins: each of the fourteen chapters has one of its illustrations re- produced twice.

JAMES HOWEGEGO, Printed Maps of London circa l-553-1850 (Folkestone: Dawson, 2nd edn, 1978. Pp. xv + 295. g30.00)

The first edition of this cartobibliography appeared in 1964 and has, with Ralph Hyde’s Printed Maps of Victorian London, been an indispensible reference work. Its co-author was Miss Ida Darlington whose name, curiously, does not appear on the title page of this new edition. Following the impeccable standard of Printed Maps of Warwick&ire