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1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) |
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text file |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Polity and ecology in formative period coastal Oaxaca: an introduction / Arthur A. Joyce -- Paleoecological evidence for early agriculture and forest clearance in coastal Oaxaca / Michelle Goman, Arthur A. Joyce, and Raymond G. Mueller -- Anthropogenic landscape cahnge and the human ecology of the lower Río Verde Valley / Raymond G. Mueller, Arthur A. Joyce, Aleksander Borejsza, and Michelle Goman -- Formative period burial practices and cemeteries / Sara B. Barber, Arthur A. Joyce, Arion T. Mayes, José Aguilar, and MIchelle Butler -- Place-making and power in the terminal formative: excavations on Río Viejo's acropolis / Arthur A. Joyce, Marc N. Levine, and Sarah B. Barber -- Defining community and status at outlying sites during the terminal formative period / Sarah B. Barber -- Coastal/Highland interaction in Oaxaca, Mexico: the perspective from San Francisco de Arriba / Andrew Workinger -- Examining ceramic evidence for the Zapotec imperialism hypothesis in the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, Mexico / Marc N. Levine -- From flesh to clay: formative period iconography from Oaxaca's lower Río Verde Valley / Guy David Hepp and Arthur A. Joyce -- Coastal Oaxaca and formative developments in Mesoamerica / Christopher A. Pool. |
| Summary |
Encapsulating two decades of research, Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca is the first major treatment of the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, investigating its social, political, and ecological history. Tracing Formative period developments from the earliest known evidence of human presence to the collapse of Río Viejo (the region's first centralized polity), the volume synthesizes the archaeological and paleoecological evidence from the valley. This period saw the earliest agricultural settlements in the region as well as the origins of sedentism and social complexity, |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) -- Antiquities.
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Indians of Mexico. |
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Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) |
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Antiquities. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí) -- Antiquities.
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Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí) |
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Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí) -- Politics and government.
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Ethnoecology -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
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Ethnoecology. |
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Ethnoecology -- Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí)
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí)
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Oaxaca (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities.
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Verde River Valley (San Luis Potosí, Mexico) -- Antiquities.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) -- Antiquities. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government. |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Joyce, Arthur A., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Polity and ecology in formative period coastal Oaxaca. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2013 9781607322023 (DLC) 2012041736 (OCoLC)793224815 |
| ISBN |
9781607322122 (e-book) |
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1607322129 (e-book) |
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1607322021 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781607322023 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781457174148 |
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1457174146 |
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9781607322023 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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