Oaxaca (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Perry. Arthur Joyce. Akira Ichikawa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent fieldwork has investigated the Late Classic and Postclassic occupation at the floodplain site of Río Viejo in Oaxaca, Mexico. The residential features uncovered detailed domestic life in the settlement after political decentralization. Though causal factors for the Late Classic political decline at Río Viejo are yet to be confirmed, archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Blomster.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II: Current Research in Oaxaca Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Figurines, as small, portable anthropomorphic and zoomorphic ceramic images, provide insights into a range of representational and symbolic concepts of the ancient Mesoamericans who created and interacted with them. Figurines have been interpreted as actively deployed in household rituals and social negotiations, as well as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karleen Ronsairo. Jeffrey Blomster. Sarah Breault.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Past studies of early urbanism in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico, have highlighted evidence of the construction of monumental architecture, increased population densities, and the expansion of Middle to Late Formative period occupations onto defensive hilltops. In the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, investigations at urban centers, such as Cerro Jazmín, Monte Negro, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pascale Meehan. Arthur Joyce. Sarah Barber. Marc Levine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Some of the earliest examples of metallurgy in Mesoamerica come from sites in the West Mexican region where metalworking, especially of copper objects, was introduced by Ecuadorian traders in the 600s-700s C.E. The recent discovery of copper items including bells and hammered copper sheets from Early Postclassic contexts (800-1100 C.E.) in the Lower Rio Verde...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Palomares.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multiple lines of evidence, including pottery production, multicrafting, goods and routes of exchange, architecture, and funerary practices, support the idea that Tayata in the Mixteca Alta was immersed in social transformations observed across different regions during the Early/Middle Formative (ca. 1400–350 BC). Changes at this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Angel Galvan Benitez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La recolección y almacenamiento de agua pluvial es una de las prácticas más antiguas en Mesoamérica. La investigación arqueológica en diversos sitios ha permitido la identificación y documentación de sistemas de canales, depósitos subterráneos, galerías filtrantes y almacenamiento en recipientes, el sistema de desagües y el más común que son los depósitos...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emmanuel Posselt Santoyo. Liana Jiménez Osorio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El yuvui tayu (reinado) de Ñuu Ndaya o Chalcatongo fue uno de los más importantes durante la época precolonial en la Mixteca Alta de Oaxaca. Esto lo sabemos gracias a los códices precoloniales y a los documentos coloniales. En el 2008 y 2016 realizamos dos recorridos arqueológicos de superficie en la parte norte de esta región, estos nos permitieron...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Angel Galvan Benitez.

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. La recolección y almacenamiento de agua pluvial es una de las prácticas más antiguas en Mesoamérica. La investigación arqueológica en diversos sitios ha permitido la identificación y documentación de depósitos subterráneos, depósitos a cielo abierto, almacenamiento en recipientes y más común el sistema de desagües. En Monte Albán...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Soren Frykholm.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1930s, the community of Monte Negro has played an integral role in the research projects carried out at its namesake archaeological site. Beyond participating in the investigations of visiting scholars, community members have themselves initiated projects to collect and disseminate local knowledge pertaining to their...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter. Michael Kirkby. Anne Kirkby.

Discusses the physiography, phytogeography and botany of the Valley of Oaxaca today; how effective moisture level variations are reflected in surface sample pollen records; and how prehistoric effective moisture variations are reflected in archaeological-context pollen records. Includes a supplemental report on economic pollen types observed in Archaic Period archaeological-context samples.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antonio Martínez Tuñón. Veronica Perez Rodriguez.

This is an abstract from the "Regional and Intensive Site Survey: Case Studies from Mesoamerica" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tonaltepec Ethnoarchaeological Project focused on one of the few surviving pottery-producing communities in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca. The project investigated whether Tonaltepec’s contemporary tradition of pottery production can be traced back to prehispanic times. To do this, we conducted ethnographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Larios.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper summarizes the results of two seasons of excavations at Cerro Tecolote, the Early Postclassic (A.D. 750-1000) settlement at Jalieza in the southern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. While the Valley of Oaxaca has been the focus of intensive and seminal archaeological research for over a century, the Early Postclassic is poorly understood in this region....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julian Acuna.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Formative (2000–1000 B.C.) period in Oaxaca is generally regarded as a transitional period from the Archaic (7000–2000 B.C.). The early formative is characterized by a change in subsistence, social organization, and sedentism. This period included the emergence of La Consentida, the earliest known settled village in coastal Oaxaca. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijke Stoll.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Much like their ancestors did in the past, people in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains still travel largely on foot to reach places, such as milpas or grazing land, that are completely inaccessible by car. These trips can take hours, following trails that easily cover 500 – 1000 km of vertical movement over rugged terrain....

DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

This file contains all of the data from Dr. Heather Laphams analysis of the animal bones collected during the 2015 excavation of Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl, Oaxaca, Mexico

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This is the report by Dr. Heather Lapham of the analysis of the faunal materials recovered during the 2015 excavations of Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Breault. Jeffrey Blomster.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous research on feasting in antiquity has demonstrated the importance of surface appearance and vessel form to interpret the performative aspects of rituals such as feasts. As part of the hosts’ strategies, of particular importance are vessels that invoke exotic imagery and/or outside groups through iconography and or aspects of overall vessel design....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Darren Longman. John Pohl.

This is an abstract from the "Tales of the Feathered Serpent: Refining Our Understanding of an Enigmatic Mesoamerican Being" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Feathered Serpent iconography among Mixtec, Zapotec, Chontal, and Huave ethnic groups of Oaxaca, Mexico indicates that its sociopolitical and religious roles are concomitant with an investment in mythological landscapes and spiritually active ritual environments. Our approach to hybrid serpents...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

Excavation forms for features excavated on Terrace S25

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Guernsey. Andrew D. Turner. Michael Love.

Pedestal sculptures featuring supernatural felines with cacao drupes projecting from their foreheads dotted the Late Formative landscape of the Pacific slope and adjacent Guatemalan Highlands. In this paper we consider the implications of the replication of this sculptural form, its role in articulating an elite agenda linked to the production of cacao, and its pertinence to sites of varying scale and relative regional authority. A similar suite of meanings engaged with cacao and supernatural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oswaldo Chinchilla.

This is an abstract from the "The Flower World: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the richest repertoires of Mesoamerican flower imagery comes from the Pacific coast of Guatemala. In this paper, I trace the temporal variations in religious beliefs and imagery related to portentous places of beauty known that modern scholars designated as "flower worlds." Lush...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleksander Borejsza. Arthur Joyce. Jonathan Lohse.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Oaxacan Cuisine" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Barrancas are marginal spaces in the cultural ecology and cultural perceptions of modern-day inhabitants and visitors of the Mixteca Alta. They tend to be little-contested commons where the poor graze their animals, hunt, gather fuelwood and occasional culinary curiosities. They rarely figure in the villagers' get-rich schemes or outsiders' research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Saumur.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Oaxacan Cuisine" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation examines the archaeological possibilities for investigating prehispanic foodways and diet. We do this through the analysis of a burial recovered in Tomb 1 at Nduatiucu, in the Teposcolula valley in the Mixteca Alta. The burial first excavated in the 1970s by Winter et al. (1975) and later re-assessed and radiocarbon dated by Saumur...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Blomster. Victor Salazar Chavez.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Oaxacan Cuisine" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of Oaxacan cuisines can be found in the later half of the Early Formative period, a time of emerging socio-political complexity. The incorporation of maize as a dietary staple and less reliance on wild plants and animals were part of a profound change in subsistence practices and conceptions of food in much of Mesoamerica. We argue that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marc Levine. Kathryn Puseman.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Oaxacan Cuisine" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper highlights the results of a recent analysis of macrobotanical remains from commoner households at the Late Postclassic (AD 1100-1522) Mixtec capital of Tututepec. The paleoethnobotanical data is considered in light of archaeological evidence, as well as ethnographic and ethnohistoric data, to investigate the nature of household food...