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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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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.

The Vegetational History of the Oaxaca Valley and Zapotec Plant Knowledge

Author : C. Earle Smith
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0932206727
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (322 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vegetational History of the Oaxaca Valley and Zapotec Plant Knowledge by : C. Earle Smith

Download or read book The Vegetational History of the Oaxaca Valley and Zapotec Plant Knowledge written by C. Earle Smith and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Part I of this volume, C. Earle Smith draws on years of survey in the Oaxaca Valley and archaeological discoveries of plant remains in the region to create a portrait of the valley’s original wild vegetation, previous to human settlement. In Part 2, Ellen Messer provides the results of her ethnobotanical study of the Zapotec residents of Mitla, a town in the southern highlands of the Valley of Oaxaca. Over the course of four years, she studied with local residents to learn the names and uses for wild plants and agricultural plants in the area.

Zapotec Civilization

Author : Joyce Marcus
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500050781
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Zapotec Civilization written by Joyce Marcus and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Important new synthesis of the Paleoindian through classic periods. Develops an action theory framework to explain formation of the first Zapotec State and the founding and growth of Monte Alban. Written in an accessible style and exceptionally well ill

Agricultural Intensification and Prehistoric Health in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

Author : Denise C. Hodges
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 9780915703166
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Agricultural Intensification and Prehistoric Health in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico by : Denise C. Hodges

Download or read book Agricultural Intensification and Prehistoric Health in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico written by Denise C. Hodges and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Denise C. Hodges examines the osteological remains from 14 archaeological sites in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, in an attempt to address the relationship between the intensification of agriculture and the health status of the prehistoric population. Volume 9 of the subseries Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca.

The Oaxaca Valley

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book The Oaxaca Valley written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cueva Blanca

Author : Kent V. Flannery
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0915703912
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis Cueva Blanca by : Kent V. Flannery

Download or read book Cueva Blanca written by Kent V. Flannery and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cueva Blanca lies in a volcanic tuff cliff some 4 km northwest of Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of a series of Archaic sites excavated by Kent Flannery and Frank Hole as part of a project on the prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca. The oldest stratigraphic level in Cueva Blanca yielded Late Pleistocene fauna, including some species no longer present in southern Mexico. The second oldest level, Zone E, produced Early Archaic material with calibrated dates as old as 11,000–10,000 BC . Zones D and C provided a rich Late Archaic assemblage whose closest ties are with the Abejas phase of Puebla’s Tehuacán Valley (fourth millennium BC). Spatial analyses undertaken on the Archaic living floors include (1) the drawing of density contours for tools and animal bones; (2) a search for Archaic tool kits using rank-order and cluster analysis; and (3) an attempt to define Binfordian “drop zones” using an approach drawn from computer vision.

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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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.

Gastronomad

Author : Mike Elgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947097001
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Gastronomad written by Mike Elgan and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are busting out of static residential living and boring corporate serfdom and embracing a new life of freedom, beauty, adventure and joy. The movement is the gastronomad lifestyle - endless travel out of love for food and culture. Instead of living in one place, then becoming an occasional tourist on vacation (where you're on the outside looking in), gastronomads become "temporary locals" wherever they go, immersing themselves in community and culture. But how? The secret is to travel and work at the same time! It's a world of endless possibilities. The gig economy, the sharing economy, the app economy and crowdsourced content - as well as ubiquitous internet and powerful mobile devices - enable almost anyone to live almost anywhere and still build a thriving, exciting and rewarding career. Journalist Mike Elgan has been living and writing about the gastronomad lifestyle for a decade, and shares all his secrets in this surprising book, including how to: pivot your career to become location independent grow your income and shrink your cost of living downsize to a small "home base" and spend half your rent abroad find dream locations to live in explore the world's most amazing food cultures create a new life that brings you joy Going gastronomad is much more than embracing a way of life. It's a state of mind. Whether you're just thinking about traveling more - not as a tourist but as an intentional traveler - or want to quit your job, sell your home and spend the rest of your life exploring the world, this book will transform how you think about travel, food and life itself!

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1

Author : Victoria Reifler Bricker
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292744412
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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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 1982-01-01 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).

Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca

Author : Arthur A. Joyce
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322129
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca written by Arthur A. Joyce and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encapsulating two decades of research, Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca is the first major treatment of the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, investigating its social, political, and ecological history. Tracing Formative period developments from the earliest known evidence of human presence to the collapse of Río Viejo (the region's first centralized polity), the volume synthesizes the archaeological and paleoecological evidence from the valley. This period saw the earliest agricultural settlements in the region as well as the origins of sedentism and social complexity, and witnessed major changes in floodplain and coastal environments that expanded the productivity of subsistence resources. The book addresses theoretically significant questions of broad relevance such as the origins and spread of agriculture, the social negotiation of complex political formations, the effects of long-distance trade and interaction, the macroregional effects of landscape change, and prehispanic ideology and political power. Focusing on questions of interregional interaction, environmental change, and political centralization, Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca provides a comprehensive understanding of the Formative period archaeology of this important and long neglected region of Oaxaca.

Cerro Danush

Author : Ronald K. Faulseit
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 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 with total page 276 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.

Development and Change of Rural Artisanry: Weaving Industries of the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico

Author : Emily Ann Vargas-Barón
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development and Change of Rural Artisanry: Weaving Industries of the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico written by Emily Ann Vargas-Barón and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Zapotec Religion

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607323745
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Zapotec Religion written by Michael Lind and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first comprehensive study of Zapotec religion as it existed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. Author Michael Lind brings a new perspective, focusing not on underlying theological principles but on the material and spatial expressions of religious practice. Using sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish colonial documents and archaeological findings related to the time period leading up to the Spanish Conquest, he presents new information on deities, ancestor worship and sacred bundles, the Zapotec cosmos, the priesthood, religious ceremonies and rituals, the nature of temples, the distinctive features of the sacred and solar calendars, and the religious significance of the murals of Mitla—the most sacred and holy center. He also shows how Zapotec religion served to integrate Zapotec city-state structure throughout the valley of Oaxaca, neighboring mountain regions, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary book on the Zapotecs and their religious practices and will be of great interest to archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, and specialists in Native American, Latin American, and religious studies.

Conquest of the Sierra

Author : John K. Chance
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133379
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Conquest of the Sierra written by John K. Chance and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conquest of the Sierra "depicts the colonial experience in the Sierra Zapoteca, a remote mountain region of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Based on unpublished and hitherto untapped archival sources, this book traces the evolution of a unique regional colonial society.

The Use of Land and Water Resources in the Past and Present Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

Author : Anne V. T. Kirkby
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Use of Land and Water Resources in the Past and Present Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico written by Anne V. T. Kirkby and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1973 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume of a series on Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Anne V. T. Kirkby investigated the agricultural production in the valley. With land-use data gathered at the time of her study (the 1960s), she created population and distribution models to help archaeologists interpret prehistoric settlement patterns in the region.

The Lords of Lambityeco

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0870819518
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Lords of Lambityeco written by Michael Lind and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2010 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive volume of this Late Classic site. . . . an important contribution to Oaxaca archaeology and to understanding Monte Alb at its peak and during its demise." Veronica Perez Rodriguez, American Anthropologist.

Etlatongo

Author : Jeffrey Blomster
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Etlatongo written by Jeffrey Blomster and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study examines the rise of social complexity and the impact of interregional interaction at the village of Etlatongo, in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca. A broad perspective is taken, examining relations with other contemporaneous parts of Mesoamerica, including the Gulf Coast Olmec culture. Methods utilized are examined and critiqued. Innovative approaches to examining interregional interaction are employed, such as neutron activation analysis of fragments of ceramic vessels. Houses and how people lived and died are explored, as is growth of parts of the village through time. The book does not just report what the author did, but why he did it.