Archaeology in the Southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca: After a Century of Explorations, What Has Changed?

Summary

This is an abstract from the "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper will be focused on understanding how archaeology has been practiced in different ways by different people in more than 100 years of explorations in the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Also, who has produced information about the past in this region, and for whom, will be analyzed. What have been the significant shifts in the knowledge of this region, and what have been the major inquiries that archaeologists have researched here, and with which other scholars have engaged in dialogues and discussions, is crucial to address the nature of the information that we have available right now. The southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec is one of the regions that historically has been addressed as essential to explain the shifts in the social, economic, and political dynamics of Mesoamerica. Nonetheless, archaeological work has been relatively scarce in comparison with other places such as the northern Isthmus. Understanding how the information that we have about this region has been produced will help us to have a critical reading of data used by archaeologists in other areas.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras

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Abstract Id(s): 32187