Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For this year’s symposium, Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology brings together Mexican and American archaeologists to discuss their ongoing research. We are “checking the pulse,” so to speak, on current research in Oaxaca. Presenters will discuss their projects in all stages of investigation: what they are discovering; what results are coming out of their current projects; what conclusions they are reaching; or even what questions they are considering tackling next. Oftentimes, it can be hard for researchers to keep up with all the investigations going on in their geographic areas of study, especially when we are located at different universities, institutions, and even countries. This can be especially difficult when dealing with transnational research where scholarly communities are divided by distance and other political and social boundaries. By checking in with each other, we aim to encourage further communication and hopefully generate greater collaboration between archaeologists who share a common goal—recording and preserving Oaxaca’s ancient history for future generations.

Other Keywords
Highland Mesoamerica: Postclassic • Household Archaeology • Highland Mesoamerica: Classic • Urbanism • Formative • Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology • Digital Archaeology: GIS • Lithic Analysis • Mortuary Analysis • Survey

Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) • North America (Continent) • Oaxaca (State / Territory) • Mesoamerica: Oaxaca or Southern Highlands • Mesoamerica • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Belize (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country)

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  • Connecting Dead, Living, and Supernatural through Plants: Botanical Mortuary Offerings at Monte Albán (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Eloi Berube. Cira Martínez López.

    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. This paper examines the plants used as mortuary offerings at the Zapotec city of Monte Albán (500 BCE–900 CE). After their passing, the deceased became Ancestors able to offer protection to their descendants. I explore the possibility that food (specifically plants) might have helped to provide and strengthen a bridge between the...

  • Conservación de la pintura mural de una tumba Zapoteca de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lilia Rivero Weber. Nelly Robles García.

    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. Enclavado en la entrada de la región de la Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, San Pedro Nexicho es una comunidad zapoteca asentada sobre los vestigios arqueológicos de un sitio que data de la época Clásica y Posclásica, en cuya época más tardía constituyó el Señorío de Ixtepeji. A partir del año 2015 la fundación Alfredo Harp Helú se interesó...

  • Early/Middle Formative Pottery Production and Exchange in the Emergence of Social Complexity in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (2023)
    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...

  • Investigating Public Spaces at the Urban Center of Cerro Jazmín, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Perez Rodriguez.

    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. The paper presents recently recovered information from excavations conducted in public spaces and open areas in the Late to Terminal Formative city of Cerro Jazmín in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca. An area thought to be a plaza located directly south to a three-mound complex (Tres Cerritos) revealed a series of constructions and...

  • Late Classic and Early Postclassic Residential Spaces of Rio Viejo, Oaxaca: Preliminary Results (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Akira Ichikawa. Arthur Joyce.

    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. The Río Verde Project-2022 examined changes in domestic economy at the city of Río Viejo during the Classic to Postclassic transition. Horizontal excavations were carried out in two low status residential areas. In both areas excavations moved from Early Postclassic domestic space near the surface into Late Classic residential areas...

  • Lidar Mapping of a Zapotec City: Cultural Hybridity and Ethnogenesis in Postclassic Guiengola, Oaxaca (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Pedro Ramon Celis.

    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. In this paper, I will discuss how Zapotecs both continued and innovated the construction traditions from the central valleys of Oaxaca in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec by showing the results of the analysis of the lidar scan made during the 2022–2023 field season of the Guiengola Archaeological Project. The archaeological site of...

  • Los sitios arqueológicos de la Mixteca vistos como espacios caminables (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emmanuel Posselt Santoyo.

    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. Los sitios arqueológicos han sido vistos comúnmente como un conjunto de elementos arquitectónicos, generando una visión estática del espacio. Sin embargo, en esta presentación los entenderé también como espacios caminables, es decir, sitios que eran transitados por personas en tiempos precoloniales. Durante los recorridos...

  • Los temazcales de Cerro Jazmín, evidencia de uso práctico en la Mixteca Alta (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Itzel Chagoya Ayala.

    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. Al temazcal o baño de vapor de tradición prehispánica se le ha asignado connotaciones religiosas y medicinales, en algunos sitios mesoamericanos ha sido localizado en centros ceremoniales asociados a juegos de pelota, basados en construcciones significativas y representaciones pictográficas que dan muestra de su forma y uso. Pero...

  • Persistence in the Nochixtlán Valley during the Classic to Postclassic Transition: Preliminary Notes from Etlatongo (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cuauhtémoc Vidal Guzmán.

    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. As in many other parts of Mesoamerica, the transition from the Classic to Postclassic periods in the Nochixtlán valley is a debated topic given the paucity of research in the Ñuu Savi area. Recently, archaeologists have aimed to elucidate the social transformations that took place during this liminal time by conducting excavations at...

  • Santuarios Mixtecos de origen precolonial: Una herencia viva (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Liana Jiménez Osorio.

    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. El tema de los santuarios y paisajes sagrados de origen precolonial en Ñuu Savi o Mixteca lo he estado investigado desde la arqueología, antropología, los códices y documentos coloniales. También han sido fundamentales las experiencias y aprendizajes que he tenido en diferentes rituales mixtecos. De esta manera, en esta plática me...

  • Spatial Analysis and Community Organization at Iglesia Gentil (San Pedro Teozacoalco), Oaxaca (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Soren Frykholm. Stephen Whittington.

    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. Between 2013 and 2017, archaeologists used GPS units to map Iglesia Gentil, a prehispanic mountaintop site in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico. In addition to thousands of agricultural and residential terraces, more than 750 structures were recorded along with ancient roads, platforms, patios, and surface artifacts. In this paper,...

  • Tipología lítica para Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alba Tellez.

    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. Se presenta la primer tipología de artefactos líticos de Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca. Identificamos una industria lítica basada en silex, con artefactos especializados. Logramos identificar las etapas del proceso de talla que se llevaban a cabo en el sitio. Se propone que la industria lítica para el periodo más temprano presenta menos...

  • Toward a Typology of Late Postclassic Period Figurines from Tututepec, Oaxaca, Mexico (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Guy Hepp. Marc Levine.

    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. In this paper, we present a preliminary typology, description, and discussion of ceramic figurines from Late Postclassic period (CE 1100–1522) Tututepec, a regional capital located on the coast of Oaxaca. The figurine sample is primarily drawn from household excavations carried out in 2005 and 2022 but also includes material curated...