Mesoamerica: Oaxaca or Southern Highlands (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett Parbus.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This aspect of the Oaxaca Survey project focuses on the construction of a macroregional GIS database for the more than 10,000 archaeological site components and structures from eight systematic regional surveys (1971-2011). Component data originally recorded in the field on aerial photographs and later published as 4km grid square component maps were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Angel Galvan Benitez.

This is an abstract from the "La Cueva de las Manitas, Cuicatlán, Oaxaca: Estudios Arqueológicos e Impacto Social" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Este sitio se caracteriza por tener en las paredes pintura con diseños y representaciones antropomorfas, zoomorfas y simbólicas. Junto al arte rupestre, existen esculturas asociadas hechas en la roca de la cueva. El primer acercamiento al sitio, mediante excavaciones arqueológicas fue diseñado para...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arion Mayes.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research investigates population health and infectious disease at the site of Río Viejo during the Classic-Post Classic transition; testing the hypothesis that treponema was endemic in Oaxaca, specifically the lower Río Verde Valley along the Pacific coast, and identifiable in a congenital New World form through dental stigmata, as well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Garcia Ramirez.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the fieldwork of the PRV22-24 the recovered ceramics were analyzed by conventional methods that include a detailed analysis of the primary contexts excavated, such as ovens, termination deposits, and middens. From the PRV24 collection a sample was taken to study through petrographic analysis. The sample focuses on the fine ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaylee Spencer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores relationships between hieroglyphic texts and Classic period Maya ceramics, delving into how inscriptions on vessels provide insight into social, political, and ritual practices of ancient Maya culture. By examining hieroglyphic texts found on particular vessel shapes, such as plates, bowls, and cache vessels, this research seeks to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margarita Caballero.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Central-Mesoamerica has several lacustrine basins that stand out as particularly sensitive to moisture fluctuations. The lacustrine sediments they preserve represent good records of hydroclimate variability, which in this region are interesting because they can give a valuable paleoclimatologic background for the analysis of human –...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachery Clow.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Classic-Postclassic transition is hypothesized to have affected health outcomes in the lower Río Verde Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Set within a multiscalar approach, this research examined the relationships between health, diseases, culture, climatic changes, and the physical manifestations left behind on the skeleton from a biocultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Cruz.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca (Part 1)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Monte Negro y Monte Albán fueron centros demográficos importantes durante la Época I (Preclásico Tardío) en Oaxaca. Los trabajos arqueológicos en Monte Negro han revelado valiosas conexiones culturales, donde la proximidad entre estas dos ciudades prehispánicas se ha reflejado en las similitudes de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Aceves.

This is an abstract from the "La Cueva de las Manitas, Cuicatlán, Oaxaca: Estudios Arqueológicos e Impacto Social" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Abstract En esta ponencia presentaremos el contexto geológico y el levantamiento topográfico de la cueva de las manitas por medio de fotogrametría, así como el resultado preliminar de los materiales colorantes y posible temporalidad.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nelly Robles García.

This is an abstract from the "La Cueva de las Manitas, Cuicatlán, Oaxaca: Estudios Arqueológicos e Impacto Social" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los recientes descubrimientos en la Cueva de las Manitas, Oaxaca, nos muestran que la domesticación de plantas, incluido el maíz, tuvo lugar en contextos rituales colectivos y una actividad cotidiana que se llevó a cabo en esta cueva desde al menos 5 mil años antes del presente. La conservación de gran...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Blomster.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The emergence of sedentary and socio-politically complex societies represents a fundamental transformation in Mesoamerica. At the highland site of Etlatongo, in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico, recent excavations have explored later Early Formative (1400 -1000 cal BCE) public space, a ballcourt, recovering a large assemblage of macrobotanical, faunal,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jorge Rios Allier.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca (Part 1)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This abstract presents an analysis of the history of archaeological resource management in Oaxaca, highlighting contemporary challenges and emerging community-based solutions in a context of deglobalization. Throughout its history, Oaxaca has been an epicenter of Mesoamerican cultures, hosting a vast...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Itzel Chagoya Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cerro Jazmín fue una importante urbe del Formativo tardío en el Valle de Nochixtlán, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. La ubicación del Cerro Jazmín fue estratégica como nodo entre los Valles de Oaxaca, la Mixteca Baja, Puebla y la Cuenca de México, lo que convirtió al Cerro Jazmín en una ciudad accesible, y a su vez, influenciada por los cambios...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Larios.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Households are often considered the smallest social and economic unit that we can evaluate through the archaeological record. Oaxaca scholars have played a key role in setting the precedent for household studies. In the Valley of Oaxaca, most household studies have focused on the Formative and Classic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Naomi Jones.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While archaeologists across Mesoamerica have long excavated miniaturized ceramic vessels, they receive little attention. Recent shifts in theoretical thinking towards materiality and craft production, however, allow us to better understand miniatures. Previous interpretations of Oaxacan miniatures range...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lacey Carpenter.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca (Part 1)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This article will explore the origins and development of shared conventions in Zapotec residential architecture by synthesizing research from the Early Formative to the Late Postclassic periods in Oaxaca. Archaeologists in this region have contributed significantly to the methods for studying...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandra Quintanar-Isaías.

This is an abstract from the "La Cueva de las Manitas, Cuicatlán, Oaxaca: Estudios Arqueológicos e Impacto Social" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Se estudió la anatomía de restos botánicos de hojas, tallos, fibras y semillas para relacionarlos con los grupos botánicos a los que pertenecen. Con procedimientos estándares de la anatomia vergetal se prepararon laminillas que contienen los tejidos estudiados. Se encontraron glumas y tallo de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ishbel Torres.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Classic and Postclassic periods, Río Viejo maintained continual occupation by various groups, leading to significant societal, ritual, environmental, economic, and political changes in the region. The site's prominent position in human development facilitated the expansion of inhabitants' worldviews, resulting in the creation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cuauhtémoc Vidal Guzmán.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We explore the continuities and changes between Late Formative and Classic period Etlatongo, especially in terms of settlement patterns and ceramic traditions. Present models suggest that most of the Late/Terminal Formative political centers in the Mixteca Alta imploded within a few hundred years of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noreen Tuross.

This is an abstract from the "La Cueva de las Manitas, Cuicatlán, Oaxaca: Estudios Arqueológicos e Impacto Social" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dating the production of rock art has been difficult and contentious. At La Cueva de las Manitas, the artists left implements used to apply the pigment to the rock surfaces and provided us with materials amenable to radiocarbon dating. The radiocarbon dating of a wider sampling of materials from this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijke Stoll.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca (Part 1)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Created by both geography and politics, frontier regions are dynamic zones where people, practices, ideas, and objects from different homelands are exchanged in novel and distinct ways. They are often productive sites of ethnogenesis through the integration, disintegration, and/or entrenchment of social...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marc Levine.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa) was a Mixtec capital that controlled much of coastal Oaxaca (Mexico) during the Late Postclassic Period (AD 1100-1522). Since 2005, residential excavations have focused on commoner lifeways, including patterns of domestic production, consumption, and exchange, and how these shed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Perez Rodriguez.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cerro Jazmín Archaeological Project has recovered the remains of 65 individuals from the Late-Terminal Formative (300 BCE—300 CE) city of Cerro Jazmín, in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. From a bioarchaeological perspective, our studies revealed that social inequality was not clearly marked among these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Badillo.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Summers of 2022 and 2023, members of the Proyecto Arqueológico de Quiechapa (PAQuie) completed test excavations at the archaeological site of Las Mesillas located in southern mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Innovative approaches were used to document the excavations that combined paperless and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Soren Frykholm.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Walls encountered in archaeological contexts are notoriously difficult to date and assign function. In this talk, the authors report on two extensive, previously unknown walls from the site of Monte Negro in Oaxaca, Mexico. They discuss the possible temporality and purpose of these walls, alluding to...