A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Over three decades ago, the volume *Debating Oaxaca Archaeology (1990) was published. It was supposed to be an authoritative summation of current research and ongoing arguments in Oaxaca archaeology. However, several key voices were missing from both the volume and the debates, most notably from women, Mexican, and Indigenous scholars. Since that time, archaeologists and anthropologists working in Oaxaca have made incredible advancements in several different ways. New data and analyses from recent studies have greatly contributed to our overall knowledge about Oaxaca’s past. There have also been several critical shifts in the theoretical framing of research to more practice-, agency-, and poststructuralist-oriented perspectives as well as increasing collaboration with descendant communities. Given these critical advancements, the goal of this symposium is to reexamine the arguments presented in *Debating Oaxaca Archaeology and discuss how we have advanced, where we have made missteps, and where we still need to make changes. Most importantly, this symposium brings together American and Mexican-based researchers who work in Oaxaca so that we can continue to build bridges of dialogue between us. By connecting and bringing researchers together, we can solve present questions about Oaxaca’s history and heritage while moving past old debates.