Oaxaca (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
176-200 (255 Records)
During the Late Formative period, social relations were transformed due to increasing political centralization and urbanization in regions throughout Oaxaca. In the Nochixtlán Valley of the Mixteca Alta, Early Ramos phase (300-100 B.C.) ceramics from urban centers in the region reflect significant stylistic change from the preceding Yucuita phase (500-300 B.C.) ceramics. This presents an opportunity to explore how social change may be reflected in stylistic changes of material culture from this...
Preliminary archaeogenomic insights on the domestication of the avocado tree (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The avocado is one of the most popular fruits exported worldwide and was originally domesticated in three independent episodes that resulted in the three main horticultural varieties we see today. One region of origin spans from the highlands of southern Mexico to the highlands of Honduras. The El Gigante Rockshelter is a site in the Southern highlands...
A Preliminary Chronology of Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in Cabo Pulmo National Park, Baja California Sur, Mexico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present the results of our preliminary analysis of the archaeological resources in Cabo Pulmo National Park (CPNP), Baja California Sur, Mexico. Since 1995, CPNP has yielded evidence for ecological recovery of marine resources, although long-term prospects are still in question. As important are the cultural resources in the park and surrounding area,...
Preserving Oaxacan Foodways in the Face of Conquest: The Seed Bank at Cerro del Convento (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Oaxacan Cuisine" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rich culinary traditions of Oaxaca were both enhanced through and catastrophically disrupted by Spanish incursions during the Colonial Period. However, in spite of many radical transformations in cooking techniques and ingredients, indigenous people of Oaxaca persisted in their use of certain foods and practices. This persistence sometimes required...
Producing Community and Communal Production: Examining Evidence for Collective Practices at Complex B, Cerro de la Virgen, Oaxaca, Mexico (2018)
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...
A Reassessment of Obsidian Procurement Networks on Guatemala's Pacific Slope (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Networks of long-distance exchange in quotidian commodities are essential aspects of prehistoric economies. On the Pacific Slope of Guatemala, there was no more important commodity than obsidian, which accounts for almost all cutting edges found in archaeological contexts. Obsidian sourcing studies on the Pacific Slope have been limited, relied on very...