Olmec Households in the Context of Sociopolitical Transformation

Summary

The Olmec are among Mesoamerica’s earliest civilizations and as such they provide a good opportunity to investigate household change in the context of developing social inequalities. Over the past few decades archaeologists have gathered household data that show the ways they transformed and remain unchanged during periods of social evolutionary change. Artifact assemblages and subsistence patterns are examined and together provide valuable insights into domestic reorganization and transformation. Comparing how change occurred at different scales and domains shows that social evolutionary transformations vary across different levels of society, which highlights the importance of investigating a range of domains and contexts.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Households and Social Evolution: Comprehensive Approaches to Social Transformation

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Abstract Id(s): 15536