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Zapotec Economy in Late Classic Jalieza: Through the Lens of Ceramic Annalysis (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Walker. Leah Minc. Christina Elson.

The site of Jalieza, during the Late Classic, was the second largest community in the Valley of Oaxaca. But in spite of its position in the regional settlement hierarchy, the position of this site in the regional economic system is largely unknown. To ascertain this, we have examined patterns of ceramic consumption and exchange utilizing three contexts of an elite house, a semi- elite house, and a systematic surface survey to obtain 250 samples of ceramics from household and ritual vessels....