Polity and ecology in formative period coastal Qaxaca / edited by Arthur A. Joyce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joyce, Arthur A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí)--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--Politics and government.

Indians of Mexico--Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí)--Politics and government.

Indians of Mexico--Ecology--Oaxaca (State).

Indians of Mexico--Ecology--Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Oaxaca (State).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí).

Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--Antiquities.

Oaxaca (Mexico : State).

Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)--Antiquities.

Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí, Mexico).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Foreword""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Paleoecological Evidence for Early Agriculture and Forest Clearance in Coastal Oaxaca""; ""3. Anthropogenic Landscape Change and the Human Ecology of the Lower Rio Verde Valley""; ""4. Formative Period Burial Practices and Cemeteries""; ""5. Place-Making and Power in the Terminal Formative""; ""6. Defining Community and Status at Outlying Sites during the Terminal Formative Period""; ""7. Coastal/Highland Interaction in Oaxaca, Mexico""

""8. Examining Ceramic Evidence for the Zapotec Imperialism Hypothesis in the Lower Rio Verde Region of Oaxaca, Mexico""""9. From Flesh to Clay""; ""10. Coastal Oaxaca and Formative Developments in Mesoamerica""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781607322122

1607322129

9781457174162

1457174162

OCLC:

827944924