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Title Polity and ecology in formative period coastal Oaxaca / edited by Arthur A. Joyce
Published Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages)
Contents Polity and ecology in formative period coastal Oaxaca: an introduction / Arthur A. Joyce -- Paleoecological evidence for early agriculture and forest clearance in coastal Oaxaca / Michelle Goman, Arthur A. Joyce, and Raymond G. Mueller -- Anthropogenic landscape change and the human ecology of the lower Río Verde Valley / Raymond G. Mueller, Arthur A. Joyce, Aleksander Borejsza, and Michelle Goman -- Formative period burial practices and cemeteries / Sara B. Barber, Arthur A. Joyce, Arion T. Mayes, José Aguilar, and Michelle Butler -- Place-making and power in the terminal formative: excavations on Río Viejo's acropolis / Arthur A. Joyce, Marc N. Levine, and Sarah B. Barber -- Defining community and status at outlying sites during the terminal formative period / Sarah B. Barber -- Coastal/Highland interaction in Oaxaca, Mexico: the perspective from San Francisco de Arriba / Andrew Workinger -- Examining ceramic evidence for the Zapotec imperialism hypothesis in the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, Mexico / Marc N. Levine -- From flesh to clay: formative period iconography from Oaxaca's lower Río Verde Valley / Guy David Hepp and Arthur A. Joyce -- Coastal Oaxaca and formative developments in Mesoamerica / Christopher A. Pool
Summary Encapsulating two decades of research, this book is a 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), this volume synthesizes the archaeological and paleoecological evidence from the valley
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) -- Antiquities
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí) -- Antiquities
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) -- Politics and government
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí) -- Politics and government
Ethnoecology -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
Ethnoecology -- Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí)
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) -- Antiquities.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities
Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government
Ethnoecology
SUBJECT Oaxaca (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities
Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí, Mexico) -- Antiquities
Subject Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí)
Form Electronic book
Author Joyce, Arthur A., editor.
LC no. 2012041736
ISBN 9781607322122
1607322129
1607322021
9781607322023
9781457174148
1457174146
1457174162
9781457174162