Quiechapa: A Window into the History of the Sierra Sur

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Approaches to Cultural and Biological Complexity in Mexico at the Time of Spanish Conquest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Southern Mexico has been the site of many large-scale regional settlement pattern projects that have been instrumental in developing the regional histories that contribute to our understandings of the sociopolitical and economic climate that was encountered by the Spanish upon their arrival nearly 500 years ago. It is because of these regional survey projects that much is known about areas of southern Mexico such as the Valley of Oaxaca and surrounding hinterland, the lower Río Verde Valley, the Mixteca Alta, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In contrast, the archaeology of the southern mountains of the modern state of Oaxaca, also known as the Sierra Sur, is largely unknown. Recent settlement pattern research in the municipality of San Pedro Mártir Quiechapa provides a window into the settlement history of the southern mountains. In this paper, we present the Quiechapa region’s settlement history spanning two millennia within the context of the broader macroregion discussing the events that shaped the sociopolitical and economic landscape before the arrival of the Spanish in A.D. 1521.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Approaches to Cultural and Biological Complexity in Mexico at the Time of Spanish Conquest

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Abstract Id(s): 24740