After Monte Albán reveals the richness and
interregional relevance of Postclassic transformations in the area
now known as Oaxaca, which lies between Central Mexico and the Maya
area and, as contributors to this volume demonstrate, achieved
cultural centrality in pan-Mesoamerican networks. Large nucleated
states throughout Oaxaca collapsed after 700 C.E., including the
great Zapotec state centered in the Valley of Oaxaca, Monte Albán.
Elite culture changed in fundamental ways as small city-states
proliferated in Oaxaca, each with a new ruling dynasty required to
devise novel strategies of legitimization. The vast majority of the
population, though, sustained continuity in lifestyle, religion,
and cosmology.
Contributors synthesize these regional transformations and
continuities in the lower Rio Verde Valley, the Valley of Oaxaca,
and the Mixteca Alta. They provide data from material culture,
architecture, codices, ethnohistoric documents, and ceramics,
including a revised ceramic chronology from the Late Classic to the
end of the Postclassic that will be crucial to future
investigations. After Monte Albán establishes Postclassic
Oaxaca's central place in the study of
Mesoamerican antiquity.
Contributors include Jeffrey P. Blomster, Bruce E. Byland,
Gerardo Gutierrez, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Arthur A. Joyce, Stacie
M. King, Michael D. Lind, Robert Markens, Cira Martínez López,
Michel R. Oudijk, and Marcus Winter.
eISBN: 978-0-87081-940-7
Subjects: Sociology, Archaeology, Anthropology
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