Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca

Contents

vii List of figures ix List of tabLes xiii foreword xv Robert N. Zeitlin 1. Polity and Ecology in Formative Period coastal oaxaca: an introduction 1 Arthur A. Joyce 2. Paleoecological Evidence for Early agriculture and Forest clearance in coastal oaxaca 43 Michelle Goman, Arthur A. Joyce, and Raymond G. Mueller 3. anthropogenic landscape change and the Human Ecology of the lower río verde valley 65 Raymond G. Mueller, Arthur A. Joyce, Aleksander Borejsza, and Michelle Goman Contents viii Contents 4. Formative Period Burial Practices and cemeteries 97 Sarah B. Barber, Arthur A. Joyce, Arion T. Mayes, José Aguilar, and Michelle Butler 5. Place-making and Power in the terminal Formative: Excavations on río viejo’s acropolis 135 Arthur A. Joyce, Marc N. Levine, and Sarah B. Barber 6. defining community and status at outlying sites during the terminal Formative Period 165 Sarah B. Barber 7. coastal/Highland interaction in oaxaca, mexico: the Perspective from san Francisco de arriba 193 Andrew Workinger 8. Examining ceramic Evidence for the Zapotec imperialism Hypothesis in the lower río verde region of oaxaca, mexico 227 Marc N. Levine 9. From Flesh to clay: Formative Period iconography from oaxaca’s lower río verde valley 265 Guy David Hepp and Arthur A. Joyce 10. coastal oaxaca and Formative developments in mesoamerica 301 Christopher A. Pool List of Contributors 341 index 343 ...