Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Barber. Arthur Joyce.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Formative period civic-ceremonial facilities like the Río Viejo acropolis in the lower Río Verde Valley on the coast of Oaxaca emerged from the combination a wide range of elements: conceptual, material, environmental, infrastructural, human, and divine. Built rapidly in the first centuries of the Common Era, the multiple...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Soren Frykholm.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1930s, the community of Monte Negro has played an integral role in the research projects carried out at its namesake archaeological site. Beyond participating in the investigations of visiting scholars, community members have themselves initiated projects to collect and disseminate local knowledge pertaining to their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijke Stoll.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Much like their ancestors did in the past, people in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains still travel largely on foot to reach places, such as milpas or grazing land, that are completely inaccessible by car. These trips can take hours, following trails that easily cover 500 – 1000 km of vertical movement over rugged terrain....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hilary Leathem.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper is a call to expand our definitions of sustainability, troubling what has become the bedrock of community archaeology and heritage projects. In Oaxaca, the question of sustainability is pursued alongside a fixed imagining of how an ideal heritage site operates. A “successful heritage project,” institutional actors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lilia Rivero Weber. Nelly Robles García.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cueva de las Manitas is located in the municipality of Cuicatlán, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, a place that is part of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve (RBTC). It is a rockshelter painted with anthropomorphic elements such as human bodies and hands (the reason for its name), zoomorphic and symbolic elements....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Perez Rodriguez.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Those of us working in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca have heard the saying that the “Classic period” in the region took place earlier, in the Late Preclassic. While the Classic period (AD 300-800) was a time of urban florescence in the Valley of Oaxaca, Basin of Mexico, Puebla, and the Mixteca Baja regions, investigations into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Whittington. Soren Frykholm.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intermediate levels of social organization—above the household, but below the entire settlement, city, or polity—are notoriously difficult to pinpoint in archaeological contexts, but they nevertheless represent a crucial frontier for building new archaeological theory to understand daily social life in the past. Ethnographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Itzel Chagoya Ayala. Soren Frykholm. Edgar Mendoza Cruz.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Este sitio mixteco del Formativo tardío (300 - 100 aC) fue explorado por el equipo de Alfonso Caso y Jorge Acosta entre los años 1936 y 1940. Es sobre esta base, en el marco del Proyecto Arqueológico Monte Negro 2023 que esta investigación se enfocó en profundizar en aspectos arquitectónicos por medio de técnicas fotogramétricas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Mitchell. Guy Hepp.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we present a refinement of the human burial sequence at the Early Formative Period (2000–1000 BC) site of La Consentida, in Oaxaca, Mexico. Previously, the chronology of mortuary spaces at La Consentida has been supported by nine radiocarbon dates (2020–1510 cal BC) from secure contexts, including charcoal,...