Cerro Jazmin and its changing regional context: building upon regional survey data

Summary

Current work at the Mixtec urban site of Cerro Jazmín stems from a regional survey of the Central Mixteca Alta led by Stephen Kowalewski. As we refine Cerro Jazmin’s chronology and know more about its history of occupation, we are building upon and sometimes correcting initial understandings of the site gained from that regional survey. We are able to contextualize the new information in relation to the entire Nochixtlan Valley and nearby areas thanks to the work and perspective offered by Steve’s work in the Mixteca Alta and in the Valley of Oaxaca. In this paper we discuss the new chronological data that points to Cerro Jazmin as an important Early and Late Ramos urban center and we refine previous statements of its prominence in the Classic and Postclassic periods. We relate this information to the region’s settlement patterns and to larger macro-regional socio-political and economic trends.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Staying Out of Small, Square Holes: The Contributions of Stephen Kowalewski to the Understanding of Human Societies at Regional and Global Scales

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