Oaxaca (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
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Recent research in the lower Río Verde Valley of Pacific coastal Oaxaca, Mexico has indicated that, during the Terminal Formative Period (150 BC - AD 250), public buildings were loci of communal practices such as feasting, collective labor, cemetery burial, and object caching. Idiosyncrasies in these practices among Terminal Formative sites in the valley suggest that political authority and community identity was constituted on the local level. While the best evidence for these practices comes...
Profile Drawings from Terrace S19 (2010)
This pdf file contains profile drawings from the structures and unit on Terrace S19, Cerro Danush, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl, Oaxaca, Mexico
Profile Drawings Terrace O8, Cerro Danush (2015)
This .pdf contains profile drawings taken on Terrace O8, Cerro Danush, Oaxaca Mexico. The first page contains the excavation grid for reference. See project report for 2015 for more information.
Project Artifact Catalog, Terraces 08 and S25 (2015)
This file contains basic information on the sample of artifacts that were registered and cataloged from the 2015 excavations of Terrace S19 and O8 on Cerro Danush in Oaxaca Mexico
Project Muestrario/Registro Terrace S19, Cerro Danush (2010)
This pdf file contains a description of all of the materials stored in the project muestrario and registered with INAH. Materials come from the excavation of Terraces S19 and S20 on Cerro Danush.
Project Report 2008 (2008)
Project Report approved by the Consejo de Arqueología of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. Covers the 2007-2008 Survey, Mapping, and Surface Collections at Cerro Danish, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl
Project Report 2010 (2010)
Project Report to the Consejo de Arqueología of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, accepted in 2010. Project consisted of comprehensive excavations on Terrace S19 of Cerro Danush
Project Report 2015 (2015)
Project Report to the Consejo de Arqueología of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Project covers extensive site mapping of the entire site, as well as comprehensive excavations on Cerro Danush. The file is large, so it has been divided up into four .pdf files. Project supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS 1353793)
Proyecto Arqueológico Cuenca del Río el Maíz: investigación científica y trabajo comunitario en Santos Reyes Nopala, Juquila, Oaxaca (2018)
Se muestra el trabajo realizado por el Proyecto Arqueológico Cuenca del Río el Maíz en coparticipación con las autoridades municipales y la comunidad de Santos Reyes Nopala, la Fundación Mexicana para la Educación Ambiental y el Departamento de Mecatrónica de la Universidad Tecnológica de los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, como una contribución al estudio científico de la arqueología de la región, cuyo objetivo principal consistió en la investigación, salvaguarda, rescate y difusión consciente...
Public Space, Sacred Place: Early Monumental Architecture and Corporate Identity in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (2018)
The Early Formative evinces the emergence of public space, and more complex communities, in Mesoamerica. Previous archaeological research at the site of Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico, identified a large village during the late Early Formative/Cruz B phase (1200/1150 – 850 BC), including an area tentatively identified as early public space. The Formative Etlatongo Project has concluded three seasons, from 2015 – 2017, of large-scale excavations, confirming the identification of public space in the...
pXRF Chemical Signatures for Obsidian Sample from Terrace S19, Cerro Danush (2013)
These are the raw data recorded for particular trace metals from the pXRF detector. The provenience of each piece is reported. For further information on provenience or the sample, consult the project report 2010
pXRF Obsidian Sample Data from Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
These are the provenience, description, and measurement data for the obsidian pieces analyzed through pXRF from Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush. See Project Report 2015 for further information on proveniences and such.
pXRF Results for Obsidian Sample from Terrace S19, Cerro Danush (2013)
These are the results from the pXRF analysis of just under 300 pieces, mostly prismatic blades, collected on Terrace S19, Cerro Danush during the 2009-2010 field season. For more specific information on the project, please consult the Project Report from 2010.
pXRF Results for Obsidian Sample from Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
This file contains the results of pXRF analysis from the obsidian collected during excavations of the residences on Terrace S25, Cerro Danush, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl
Quiechapa: A Window into the History of the Sierra Sur (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Approaches to Cultural and Biological Complexity in Mexico at the Time of Spanish Conquest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southern Mexico has been the site of many large-scale regional settlement pattern projects that have been instrumental in developing the regional histories that contribute to our understandings of the sociopolitical and economic climate that was encountered by the Spanish upon their arrival nearly...
Quotidian and Ritual Use of Maize at Early Formative Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research on subsistence systems in Early Formative (1600–900 BCE) Mesoamerican communities contest longstanding concepts linking the growth of early sociopolitical complexity with full-time agriculture. Lowland-focused studies have introduced mixed nonagricultural models in coastal regions that were able to support both sedentary groups and much larger...
Radiocarbon Analysis Report, Beta Analytic (2010)
This file contains the report from Beta Analytic regarding their analysis of 10 charcoal samples collected during the 2010 project. For more information on sample provenience and collection methods, please read the Project Report for 2010
Radiocarbon Analysis Report, Center for Applied Isotope Studies, UGA (2015)
This file includes the radiocarbon analysis report for 18 charcoal samples collected during the 2015 field season on Terrace S25, Cerro Danush. Because the lab did not conduct the calibrations, I conducted them using the program Calib v. 7.1, which uses the program intcall13.14c, (Stuiver and Reimer 1993).
Raising Dogs for Meat and Sacrifice: A Comparative Study of Classic Period Sites in Oaxaca, Mexico (2018)
The domestic dog (Canis familiaris) became a staple in the meat diet of Zapotec peoples during the Formative period (1500 BC – AD 200) in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, and continued to be increasingly important in subsistence and ritual into the Classic and Postclassic periods. Recent zooarchaeological research has identified low-intensity household management/production of animals and animal by-products at sites throughout the valley, with each settlement marked by its own unique signature of...
Reaping the Rewards of Incipient Agriculture from the Land to the Sea and the Mangroves In Between (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Archaic to Early Formative transition, the Soconusco populations began adopting more sedentary subsistence strategies and investing more in their local environments. Evidence from sediment cores demonstrates that during the Archaic, populations were burning inland landscapes and starting to grow maize. The environmental effects of incipient...
Reconsidering Time, Matter, and Community in the Monumental Architecture of Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are keenly aware that the past, present, and future are always being reworked, always in motion: a composite weave of multiple temporalities. One of the enduring challenges of our discipline is to tease out of the seemingly static archaeological record how people in the past conceptualized, materialized, and...
Reconstrucción arquitectónica del Edificio P de Monte Albán, una visualización del pasado desde las herramientas digitales (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Avances en los estudios de la arquitectura de Monte Albán" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las exploraciones arqueológicas del Edificio P de Monte Albán, enmarcadas en el Proyecto de Conservación de los Edificios dañados por los Sismos del 2017 en Monte Albán-Atzompa, han permitido identificar evidencias arqueológicas que muestran las etapas y sistemas constructivos que se realizaron en el mismo entre el Clásico...
Revisiting the Early Oaxacan Village: New Perspectives on Some of Mesoamerica’s First Settled Communities (2021)
This is an abstract from the "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since its publication in 1976, *The Early Mesoamerican Village has been a landmark for the systematic study of early settled communities. Based on research in the Valley of Oaxaca, *EMV has helped many students of archaeology to better understand household and community organization and...
Ritual and Domestic Plant Use on the Southern Pacific Coast of Mexico: A Starch Grain Study of the Formative to Classic Period Transition at Izapa (2018)
In southern Mesoamerica, the transition from the Formative period to Classic period (100 B.C.- A.D. 400) was a time of population decline, cessation of monumental construction, and the abandonment of many sites. Environmental explanations such as drought and volcanic activity have been proposed as potential trigger factors for the widespread collapse at the close of the Formative period. Current evidence suggests that residents of the early capital of Izapa, located on a piedmont environmental...
Ruins in the Daily Life of San Antonio La Baeza from the Prehispanic Past to the Modern Day (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Vibrancy of Ruins: Ruination Studies in Ancient Mesoamerica" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What role do ruins play in the lives of descendant peoples? Surrounding the small mountain pueblo of San Antonio La Baeza are numerous ruins dating to different time periods. For example, below the modern pueblo are large, deep rockshelters that have been occupied from the Late Formative up until today and are covered in...