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Etlatongo : social complexity, interaction, and village life in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico / Jeffrey Blomster.
Penn Museum Library F1219.1.O11 B56 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blomster, Jeffrey.
- Series:
- Case studies in archaeology series
- Case studies in archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social structure--Mexico--Oaxaca--History.
- Social structure.
- Villages--Mexico--Oaxaca--History.
- Villages.
- Social interaction--Mexico--Oaxaca--History.
- Social interaction.
- History.
- Etlatongo (Oaxaca, Mexico)--Social life and customs.
- Etlatongo (Oaxaca, Mexico).
- Etlatongo (Oaxaca, Mexico)--Antiquities.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, [2004]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: An Introduction to Complexity, Interaction, and Formative Mesoamerica 1
- The Anthropology of Social Complexity and Interregional Interaction 4
- World Systems Theory 8
- Practice Theory: Putting People in the World 10
- Formative Mesoamerica: Olmecs and Zapotecs 11
- Digging Deeper: What Is Mesoamerica? 12
- Chapter 2 Designing Research for the Nochixtlan Valley: Or Why I Went to the Mixteca Alta 21
- The Mixteca Alta and the Nochixtlan Valley 21
- Research in the Mixteca Alta 26
- Digging Deeper: What Is Glottochronology? 29
- Research Design: Great Expectations 35
- Drafting the Research Strategy 38
- Chapter 3 Community and Change: Etlatongo through Time 45
- Site Survey and Mapping at Etlatongo 45
- Digging Deeper: To Collect or not to Collect? 47
- Site Boundaries: Conceptual Issues and Communities 48
- The Site Survey: Research Areas and Occupations 53
- Microsettlement Patterning and Diachronic Change at Etlatongo 64
- Chapter 4 Middle Cruz Social Complexity and Village Life at Etlatongo: A Formative Primer and Sampler 72
- Unit Selection and Excavation Methods 72
- Digging Deeper: The Joys of Straight-Sided Units 73
- Archaeology at Early Mesoamerican Villages: A Formative Primer 74
- Unit 1 Public Space at Etlatongo 78
- Higher Status, Storage Space, and Ritual Paraphernalia: Unit 23 85
- Chapter 5 Two Middle Cruz Occupations: Higher-Status or Public Space? 97
- Digging Deeper: Sondage versus Robotage: Advantages and Disadvantages 99
- Occupation 1 Structure 2-5, Floors 10 through 15, and Features 28 through 30 100
- Occupation 2 Floor 9 and Features 26 and 27 106
- Evidence for Social Complexity and Inequality 111
- Chapter 6 Interregional Interaction at Etlatongo: Ceramic Style, Compositional Analysis, and Radioactive Fire-Serpents 115
- Digging Deeper: Ceramic Analysis without Tears 116
- Style and the San Lorenzo Horizon 117
- Middle Cruz Ceramics at Etlatongo 123
- Olmec-Style Designs at Etlatongo 128
- Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Middle Cruz Ceramics 132
- Ceramics and Exchange at Etlatongo: Summary 143
- Chapter 7 Life and Death at Late Formative Etlatongo: Ancestors and the Yucuita Phase 146
- Death and Ancestors in Oaxaca 146
- Excavation Area 1 (EA-1) 148
- Occupation 1 Floor 7, Burials 1-4, and Features 7-10 149
- Digging Deeper: Burial Types from Lenin to Monte Alban 152
- Occupation 2 Floor 6 and Features 5 and 6 162
- Occupation 3 Structure 2-2, Floors 1 through 5, and Features 3 and 4 163
- Life, Death, and the Growth of Villages 166
- Defining the Yucuita Phase and Late Formative Ceramic Production 168
- Chapter 8 Conclusions: Complexity and Interregional Interaction at Etlatongo 177
- Complexity, Inequality, and Prestige Goods at Etlatongo 177
- Interregional Interaction at Etlatongo 181
- A World Systems Perspective: Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Olmecs 185
- Etlatongo and the Future? 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0534612814
- OCLC:
- 53711142
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