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Constructing a city, the role of commoners in the building of Guiengola, Oaxaca (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2023)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pedro Ramon Celis.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project traces one of Oaxaca’s legendary migration events, the Zapotec migration and conquest of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the construction of the fortress and city of Guiengola during the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1250-1521). Ethnohistoric documents suggest that the Zapotec elite migrated from the highland Central Valleys to the coastal Isthmus of Tehuantepec for their own...

The Urban Origins Project at Quiotepec-Oxtotitlán, Guerrero (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher von Nagy. Mary Pohl. Paul Schmidt. Eliseo Padilla Gutiérrez. Isaac Lima Astudillo.

The large Early to Late Formative site of Quiotepec-Oxtotitlán, best known for Oxtotitlán Cave and its associated Middle to Late Formative polychrome murals, is the site of on-going archaeological research since 2012 by the Urban Origins Project. Our goal is twofold: to develop a richly detailed documentation of the art and its physical and chronological context at Quiotepec-Oxotitlán and to investigate the political economic underpinnings of the artistic production and possible elements of a...