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After Monte Albán

Author : Jeffrey P. Blomster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis After Monte Albán by : Jeffrey P. Blomster

Download or read book After Monte Albán written by Jeffrey P. Blomster and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Monte Albán reveals the richness and interregional relevance of Postclassic transformations in the area now known as Oaxaca, which lies between Central Mexico and the Maya area and, as contributors to this volume demonstrate, achieved cultural centrality in pan-Mesoamerican networks. Large nucleated states throughout Oaxaca collapsed after 700 C.E., including the great Zapotec state centered in the Valley of Oaxaca, Monte Albán. Elite culture changed in fundamental ways as small city-states proliferated in Oaxaca, each with a new ruling dynasty required to devise novel strategies of legitimization. The vast majority of the population, though, sustained continuity in lifestyle, religion, and cosmology. Contributors synthesize these regional transformations and continuities in the lower Rio Verde Valley, the Valley of Oaxaca, and the Mixteca Alta. They provide data from material culture, architecture, codices, ethnohistoric documents, and ceramics, including a revised ceramic chronology from the Late Classic to the end of the Postclassic that will be crucial to future investigations. After Monte Albán establishes Postclassic Oaxaca's central place in the study of Mesoamerican antiquity. Contributors include Jeffrey P. Blomster, Bruce E. Byland, Gerardo Gutierrez, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Arthur A. Joyce, Stacie M. King, Michael D. Lind, Robert Markens, Cira Martínez López, Michel R. Oudijk, and Marcus Winter.

The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State

Author : Andrew K. Balkansky
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 091570353X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State by : Andrew K. Balkansky

Download or read book The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State written by Andrew K. Balkansky and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balkansky’s full-coverage survey of the Sola Valley, 65 km southwest of Oaxaca City, documents 120 sites. By combining his data with that of 13 other regions of Oaxaca, he produces a model for Zapotec state expansion that integrates colonization, diplomacy, and military conquest.

Ancient Oaxaca

Author : Richard E. Blanton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521577878
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (778 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Oaxaca by : Richard E. Blanton

Download or read book Ancient Oaxaca written by Richard E. Blanton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the emergence of social complexity and state formation in a New World region. Around 500 BC, the Valley of Oaxaca, in present-day Mexico, was the site of one of the earliest Native American states, when a new regional capital was established at Monte Alban. Today one of Mexico's most famous and spectacular archaeological sites, Monte Alban signalled an important series of changes in regional political structure in the direction of greater political complexity and integration within a larger domain. The four authors of this introductory text have over the years produced much of the most important primary information we have about developing complex societies in this region. Drawing on the abundance of excavated remains and a survey of regional archaeological settlement patterns, they provide a succinct account of the causes and consequences of political change in the region.

Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I

Author : Richard E. Blanton
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0932206913
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (322 download)

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Book Synopsis Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I by : Richard E. Blanton

Download or read book Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I written by Richard E. Blanton and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, the authors interpret archaeological data on roughly 3000 years of human history in the Valley of Oaxaca, from roughly 1500 BC to AD 1500. They integrate information on settlement patterns, political and social organization, artifact distribution, and more.

Mesoamerica After the Decline of Teotihuacan, A.D. 700-900

Author : Richard A. Diehl
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884021759
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)

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Book Synopsis Mesoamerica After the Decline of Teotihuacan, A.D. 700-900 by : Richard A. Diehl

Download or read book Mesoamerica After the Decline of Teotihuacan, A.D. 700-900 written by Richard A. Diehl and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1989 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zapotec Women

Author : Lynn Stephen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387514
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Zapotec Women by : Lynn Stephen

Download or read book Zapotec Women written by Lynn Stephen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, have changed in response to the international demand for Oaxacan textiles. Based on Stephen’s research in Teotitlán during the mid-1980s, in 1990, and between 2001 and 2004, this volume provides a unique view of a Zapotec community balancing a rapidly advancing future in export production with an entrenched past anchored in indigenous culture. Stephen presents new information about the weaving cooperatives women have formed over the last two decades in an attempt to gain political and cultural rights within their community and standing as independent artisans within the global market. She also addresses the place of Zapotec weaving within Mexican folk art and the significance of increased migration out of Teotitlán. The women weavers and merchants collaborated with Stephen on the research for this book, and their perspectives are key to her analysis of how gender relations have changed within rituals, weaving production and marketing, local politics, and family life. Drawing on the experiences of women in Teotitlán, Stephen considers the prospects for the political, economic, and cultural participation of other indigenous women in Mexico under the policies of economic neoliberalism which have prevailed since the 1990s.

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1

Author : Victoria Reifler Bricker
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292791712
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1 by : Victoria Reifler Bricker

Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1 written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural anthropologist, was selected to be series editor. This first volume of the Supplement is devoted to the dramatic changes that have taken place in the field of archaeology. The volume editor, Jeremy A. Sabloff, has gathered together detailed reports from the directors of many of the most significant archaeological projects of the mid-twentieth century in Mesoamerica, along with discussions of three topics of general interest (the rise of sedentary life, the evolution of complex culture, and the rise of cities).

The Art and Architecture of Ancient America

Author : George Kubler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300053258
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Art and Architecture of Ancient America written by George Kubler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a survey of the paintings and architecture of the Mexican, Mayan, and Andean peoples

Prehistoric Mesoamerica

Author : Richard E. W. Adams
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137025
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Prehistoric Mesoamerica by : Richard E. W. Adams

Download or read book Prehistoric Mesoamerica written by Richard E. W. Adams and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date overview of Mesoamerican cultures from early prehistoric times through the fall of the Aztec Empire, Prehistoric Mesoamerica, Third Edition will be useful and appealing to readers interested in Mesoamerican art, society, politics, and intellectual achievement.

Cerro Danush

Author : Ronald K. Faulseit
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0915703823
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis Cerro Danush by : Ronald K. Faulseit

Download or read book Cerro Danush written by Ronald K. Faulseit and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monte Albán was the capital of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, ca. 500 BC–AD 600, but once its control began to wane, other sites filled the political vacuum. Archaeologists have long awaited a meticulous excavation of one of these sites—one that would help us better understand the process that transformed second-tier sites into a series of polities or señoríos that competed with each other for centuries. This book reports in detail on Ronald Faulseit’s excavations at the site of Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl in the Valley of Oaxaca. His 2007–2010 mapping and excavation seasons focused on the Late Classic (AD 600–900) and Early Postclassic (AD 900–1300). The spatial distributions of surface artifacts—collected during the intensive mapping and systematic surface collecting—on residential terraces at Cerro Danush are analyzed to evaluate evidence for craft production, ritual, and abandonment at the community level. This community analysis is complemented by data from the comprehensive excavation of a residential terrace, which documents diachronic patterns of behavior at the household level. The results from Faulseit’s survey and excavations are evaluated within the theoretical frameworks of political cycling and resilience theory. Faulseit concludes that resilient social structures may have helped orchestrate reorganization in the dynamic political landscape of Oaxaca after the political collapse of Monte Albán.

Excavations at Cerro Tilcajete

Author : Christina Elson
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0915703661
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis Excavations at Cerro Tilcajete by : Christina Elson

Download or read book Excavations at Cerro Tilcajete written by Christina Elson and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, part of a series on the prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, focuses on Cerro Tilcajete, a secondary administrative center below Monte Albán, the capital of the prehispanic Zapotec state.

The Cloud People

Author : Kent V. Flannery
Publisher : Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud People written by Kent V. Flannery and published by Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case study in the divergent evolution of Mexico's Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations, this collection has become a basic resource in the literature of Mesoamerican prehistory and has been widely cited by scholars working on divergent evolution in other parts of the world. Originally published by Academic Press in 1983, a new introduction by the editors updates the volume in terms of discoveries made during the subsequent two decades.

Ancient Oaxaca

Author : John Paddock
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804701709
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Oaxaca written by John Paddock and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.

Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change

Author : Lacey B. Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000464946
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change by : Lacey B. Carpenter

Download or read book Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change written by Lacey B. Carpenter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change offers new perspectives on the processes of social change from the standpoint of household archaeology. This volume develops new theoretical and methodological approaches to the archaeology of households pursuing three critical themes: household diversity in human residential communities with and without archaeologically identifiable houses, interactions within and between households that explicitly considers impacts of kin and non-kin relationships, and lastly change as a process that involves the choices made by members of households in the context of larger societal constraints. Encompassing these themes, authors explore the role of social ties and their material manifestations (within the house, dwelling, or other constructed space), how the household relates to other social units, how households consolidate power and control over resources, and how these changes manifest at multiple scales. The case studies presented in this volume have broader implications for understanding the drivers of change, the ways households create the contexts for change, and how households serve as spaces for invention, reaction, and/or resistance. Understanding the nature of relationships within households is necessary for a more complete understanding of communities and regions as these ties are vital to explaining how and why societies change. Taking a comparative outlook, with case studies from around the world, this volume will inform students and professionals researching household archaeology and be of interest to other disciplines concerned with the relationship between social networks and societal change.

Agency in Archaeology

Author : Marcia-Anne Dobres
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131795940X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Agency in Archaeology written by Marcia-Anne Dobres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group Agency in Archaeology brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US.

War and Society in Ancient Mesoamerica

Author : Ross Hassig
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520912281
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book War and Society in Ancient Mesoamerica written by Ross Hassig and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-08-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the state.

The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology

Author : Deborah L. Nichols
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199996342
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology by : Deborah L. Nichols

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology written by Deborah L. Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico written by archaeologists from these countries. These are followed by regional syntheses organized by time period, beginning with early hunter-gatherer societies and the first farmers of Mesoamerica and concluding with a discussion of the Spanish Conquest and frontiers and peripheries of Mesoamerica. Topical and comparative articles comprise the remainder of Handbook. They cover important dimensions of prehispanic societies--from ecology, economy, and environment to social and political relations--and discuss significant methodological contributions, such as geo-chemical source studies, as well as new theories and diverse theoretical perspectives. The Handbook concludes with a section on the archaeology of the Spanish conquest and the Colonial and Republican periods to connect the prehispanic, proto-historic, and historic periods. This volume will be a must-read for students and professional archaeologists, as well as other scholars including historians, art historians, geographers, and ethnographers with an interest in Mesoamerica.