Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico

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John Wiley & Sons, Sep 9, 2011 - Social Science - 368 pages

Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico examines the origins, history, and interrelationships of the civilizations that arose and flourished in Oaxaca.

  • Provides an up-to-date summary of the current state of research findings and archaeological evidence
  • Uses contemporary social theory to address many key problems relating to archaeology of the Americas, including the dynamics of social life and the rise and fall of civilizations
  • Adds clarity to ongoing debates over cultural change and interregional interactions in ancient Mesoamerican societies
  • Supplemented with compelling illustrations, photographs, and line drawings of various archaeological sites and artifacts
 

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Contents

List of Contributors
1972
two Peoples and Landscapes on the Eve of the Spanish
Conquest
three From Foragers to Village Life
four Negotiating Community and Complexity
The Founding and Early
six Political Centralization in the Mixteca and Coast
seven Authority and Polity in the Classic Period
eight Collapse and Reemergence
nine Conclusions
Endnotes
Index
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

ancestors Antropología e Historia architecture Balkansky barrio Blomster burials ceramic vessels ceremonial center Cerro Chatino Classic period codices communities complex corporate groups cultural deities Early Formative edited elaborate elites Etlatongo evidence excavated Feinman Figure figurines Flannery & Marcus greenstone high-status residences households Huamelulpan identity indigenous Joyce Marcus Kowalewski Lambityeco Late Postclassic Lord 8 Deer lower Río Verde Main Plaza Marcus & Flannery Mesoamerica Mexico Middle Formative Mitla Mixtec and Zapotec Mixtec highlands Mixteca Alta Monte Albán Monte Negro monumental mortuary nobility nobles Nochixtlán Valley North Platform Oaxaca Valley obsidian Olmec ornaments patio phase political centers practices prehispanic public buildings regions relations Río Verde Valley Río Viejo ritual rulers sacred San José Mogote settlement social Spanish Conquest status distinctions stone Structure suggests Tehuacán Tehuantepec Teotihuacan Terminal Formative terraces Terraciano Tilantongo Tomaltepec tombs Tututepec Urcid Valley of Oaxaca Verde Valley warfare Yagul Yucuita Zaachila Zeitlin

About the author (2011)

Arthur A. Joyce is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and has carried out field research in Oaxaca since 1986. His current research interests include social theory in archaeology, human ecology, and the origins, development, and collapse of complex societies in Mesoamerica.

Bibliographic information

TitleMixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico
Peoples of America
AuthorArthur A. Joyce
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444360477, 9781444360479
Length368 pages
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History / General
Social Science / Archaeology
  
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