Spatial Analysis and Community Organization at Iglesia Gentil (San Pedro Teozacoalco), Oaxaca

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Between 2013 and 2017, archaeologists used GPS units to map Iglesia Gentil, a prehispanic mountaintop site in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico. In addition to thousands of agricultural and residential terraces, more than 750 structures were recorded along with ancient roads, platforms, patios, and surface artifacts. In this paper, we analyze the structures at Iglesia Gentil, including their size, density, and distribution. Network and cluster analyses shed further light on this architectural dataset with implications for spatial and social organization at this cabecera, or administrative center. Ultimately, we contemplate the presence and delineation of ancient neighborhoods. Our results are discussed in the context of findings from contemporaneous sites in the Mixteca Alta as well as ethnohistoric units of community in Oaxaca such as the Mixtec siqui and Spanish “barrio.”

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36573.0