Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II
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 II" 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
Formative •
Subsistence and Foodways •
Political economy •
Architecture •
Zooarchaeology •
Paleoethnobotany •
Quantitative and Spatial Analysis •
Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology •
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis: INAA •
Highland Mesoamerica: Postclassic
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
Oaxaca (State / Territory) •
North America (Continent) •
Mesoamerica: Oaxaca or Southern Highlands
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The Corn That We Eat: Feasting on Maize and Maize Diversity in the Early Formative Community of Etlatongo, in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations at Etlatongo recovered one of the largest analyzed macrobotanical samples for Early Formative Mesoamerica. We have explored the significant richness of species identified at the site, asserting that full-time agriculture was in place in the Highlands as early as the fourteenth century BCE. Here we turn...
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Dogs, Diners, and Deposition: The Social Role of Canis lupus familiaris in Cruz B Households in Etlatongo, Nochixtlán, Oaxaca (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents a comparative faunal analysis from two distinct Early Formative households from Etlatongo, a multicomponent site located within the Nochixtlán Valley of the Mixteca Alta in Oaxaca. The faunal remains from several different contexts were analyzed; these contexts represent routine domestic refuse and those from a...
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Los Antepasados Eran Más Valientes: Ancient and Modern Movement in the Sierra Sur Mountains (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People living in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains still travel largely on foot, especially where cars are impossible or when they are moving their livestock from one place to another. Prior to the widespread ownership of cars today, travel by foot was even more common and was the only mode of transportation in the prehispanic era....
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Reconsidering Time, Matter, and Community in the Monumental Architecture of Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are keenly aware that the past, present, and future are always being reworked, always in motion: a composite weave of multiple temporalities. One of the enduring challenges of our discipline is to tease out of the seemingly static archaeological record how people in the past conceptualized, materialized, and...
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State Formation and Economic Integration: New Perspectives from Ceramic Sourcing in the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The two occupations at Tilcajete, El Mogote and El Palenque, offer a unique perspective on the political and economic changes surrounding the rise of Monte Albán. Located in the southern arm of the Valley of Oaxaca, El Mogote was an important Rosario phase (700–500 BCE) community that grew in size and political importance during the...