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This chapter by John M. D. Pohl and Michael D. Mathiowetz appears in a Dumbarton Oaks volume edited by Christopher S. Beekman and Colin McEwan. Please cite the chapter and volume as follows: Pohl, John M.D. and Michael D. Mathiowetz 2022... more
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      Latin American StudiesArchaeologyIndigenous StudiesCentral American Studies
Tesis de maestria.
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      ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Terracotta Figurines
SUMMARY: Chapter 13, in Renfrew & Bahn's textbook (Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice), provides five case studies to aid student comprehension of the preceding 12 chapters and approaches to understanding and interpreting past... more
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      ArchaeologyAustralian Indigenous ArchaeologySoutheast Asian ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)
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      Social IdentityMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Mortuary archaeology
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      EthnographyFirst Year ExperienceOaxaca (Anthropology)Oaxaca (Archaeology)
The Oaxaca Valley during Monte Albán V provides an ideal context to explore the relationship between group identity and material culture in archaeology, a relationship that is often left largely unquestioned despite being poorly... more
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      Identity (Culture)Language and IdentityOaxaca (Archaeology)Ethnicity
In this article, we present the most significant results of the Monte Albán Geophysical Archaeology Project. Using groundpenetrating radar, gradiometry, and electrical resistance, we carried out a systematic survey of the site’s Main... more
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      Remote SensingOaxaca (Archaeology)Monte Albán
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Mesoamerican ArtMesoamerican iconography
Este capítulo examina el aprovechamiento de animales entre los mixteco hablantes prehispánicos en el occidente de Oaxaca, México. No sólo nos enfocamos en animales como importantes recursos dietarios, sino que también discutimos su uso en... more
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      ZooarchaeologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyAncient economies (Archaeology)Oaxaca (Archaeology)
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      ArchaeologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyCraft KnowledgeHousehold Archaeology
The ballgame tradition has a long and profound history in both Oaxaca and Mesoamerica. Archeological evidence indicates that the game was played in this region by at least the Middle Formative period, yet it also suggests that the... more
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      ArchaeologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Mesoamerican Ballgame
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Mesoamerican Studies
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      ArchaeologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Anthropology)Oaxaca (Archaeology)
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      ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Mixtec CodicesLatin American
Straddling maritime, lowlands, and highland environments, the neighboring Chontal and Huave ethnic groups occupy one of the most diverse landscapes in southern Mexico. For over five centuries this resource-rich territory served as a... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyPre-Columbian ArtOaxaca (Anthropology)Oaxaca (Archaeology)
Estudio sobre la arqueología, cronología y las estelas prehispánicas en la Costa de Oaxaca.
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      Oaxaca (Archaeology)ChatinosJuego de pelota Iconografía Costa Chica de Oaxaca
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)
El objetivo de este trabajo es hacer una reflexión sobre el quehacer arqueomusicológico, la problemática metodológica inherente al tema, sus alcances y sus limitaciones y, por último, los aportes que esta disciplina puede generar no sólo... more
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      EthnomusicologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Archaeomusicology
Mixtec pictorial manuscripts from Late Postclassic Oaxaca represent textiles as costume but also in relation to both the natural and built environments. This paper relates these apparently anomalous images to accounts of the mythical... more
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      Writing Systems & DeciphermentMesoamerican ArchaeologyTextile ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)
This article reports on collaborative work that examined collections from the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution) and the Royal Museum of Art and History (Brussels). The research focused on post-Classic Mixtec... more
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      Museum StudiesMesoamerican ArchaeologyHistory of CollectionsOaxaca (Archaeology)
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      CosmovisionOaxaca (Anthropology)Oaxaca (Archaeology)Mesoamerica (Anthropology)
In 'Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art', Maarten Jansen and Aurora Pérez present new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico. Combining iconographical analysis with the study of archaeological... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyAztec ArtIndigenous PeoplesOaxaca (Anthropology)
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      IconographyMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Mixtec Codices
Tesis de Maestría en Estudios Mesoamericanos, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.... more
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      ArchaeologyIconographyCeramic Analysis (Archaeology)Oaxaca (Archaeology)
The site of Dainzú, Oaxaca is known for its corpus of apparently unique iconography. In the past, several authors saw a representation of a type of ballgame in this corpus. In this paper, it is argued that this analysis seems to be based... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Mesoamerica (Anthropology)Mesoamerican Ballgame
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      Art HistoryEthnomusicologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)
La región chatina del estado de Oaxaca ha sido poco estudiada arqueológicamente. En este trabajo se presenta un corpus de 35 monumentos grabados como objeto principal de investigación. Los resultados son preliminares.
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      Oaxaca (Archaeology)Mesoamerican WritingChatinosIconografía Costa Chica de Oaxaca
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      Oaxaca (Anthropology)Oaxaca (Archaeology)Mesoamerica
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      Mexican StudiesHistoriographyOaxaca (Anthropology)Oaxaca (Archaeology)
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      ArchaeologyArt HistoryLandscape ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)
To cite this article:
Michael D. Mathiowetz (2018): The Sun Youth of the Casas Grandes Culture, Chihuahua, Mexico (AD 1200–1450). Kiva: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 84(3): 367-390.
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      ReligionHistoryEthnohistoryLatin American Studies
In this article, we present the most significant results of the Monte Albán Geophysical Archaeology Project. Using groundpenetrating radar, gradiometry, and electrical resistance, we carried out a systematic survey of the site's Main... more
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      ArchaeologyGround Penetrating Radar (GPR)Urbanism (Archaeology)Mesoamerican Archaeology
En el presente trabajo se realizo un avance en el estudio cerámico de seis conjuntos arquitectónicos (TL1, TL9, TL11, TL6, TL7 y TL67) pertenecientes a Tlailotlacan, Teotihuacan; donde logramos la identificación de grupos, tipos y... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyTeotihuacanOaxaca (Archaeology)Golfo de México
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      Biological AnthropologyBioarchaeologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Anthropology)
This study of the hieroglyphic writing system of Preclassic and Classic Monte Alban in the Mexican state of Oaxaca discusses the origins of writing in the Zapotec area and highlights the various academic perspectives (above all, those of... more
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      IconographyWriting Systems & DeciphermentWriting Systems (Languages And Linguistics)Oaxaca (Archaeology)
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      IconographyMesoamerican ArchaeologyTeotihuacanOaxaca (Archaeology)
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      Art HistoryEthnomusicologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)
Whistling vessels comprise a unique type of musical instrument characteristic of pre-Hispanic cultures in Mesoamerica and beyond. The distinctiveness of these instruments lies in their mechanics of sound production whereby an internal and... more
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      EthnomusicologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Archaeomusicology
Este trabajo representa un pequeño aporte a la bioarqueología de Oaxaca, haciendo uso de la bioarqueología y arqueometría que ayuden a comprender la dinámica social, política y económica de la zona. Con base a la dieta que realizaron los... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)ZapotecArchaeology - Food ways
Resumen: Dentro de la perspectiva etnohistórica Cocijo, deidad zapoteca del Rayo y la lluvia, estuvo estrechamente vinculado con el culto al agua, al maíz e incluso a la tierra. Tanto en la iconografía arqueológica como en referencias en... more
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      CosmovisionRitualMesoamerican ArchaeologyPrehistoric religion and r ritual a
Tal vez una de las mejores maneras de nombrar a la región zapoteca del sur de Oaxaca sea como "la tierra del Rayo", cuyo personaje condensa, al mismo tiempo, el fenómeno físico aludido de manera inmediata, pero también a una de las... more
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      CosmovisionMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Anthropology)Oaxaca (Archaeology)
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      IconographyMesoamerican ArchaeologyCoastal GeomorphologyTeotihuacan
Como resultado de trabajos de salvamento arqueológico en el sur del Istmo de Tehuantepec, se localizaron instrumentos musicales y objetos sonoros como un tambor, una flauta triple, vasijas tipo Tohil Plumbate con cascabeles y dos... more
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      EthnomusicologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)Archaeomusicology
En este estudio se presenta un análisis arqueomusicológico de los instrumentos musicales recuperados en proyectos arqueológicos realizados en el Valle de Jalapa del Marqués, Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca.
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyOaxaca (Archaeology)ArchaeomusicologyIsthmus of Tehuantepec
Most early sedentary villages (c. 1500–500 BCE) in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, were situated on or near well-watered land. Around 500 BCE, a new hilltop center, Monte Albán, was established at the nexus of the valley's three arms, where... more
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      HistorySocial ChangeArchaeologyPolitical Anthropology
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      Social ChangeArchaeologyAnthropologyPolitical Anthropology
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      Urbanism (Archaeology)Mesoamerican ArchaeologyUrbanismTeotihuacan
This book aims to provide a comprehensive comparison about the basic organization of power in ancient Mesoamerica and Egypt. How power emerged and was exercised, how it reproduced itself, how social units (from households to cities)... more
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      HistoryAmerican HistoryAncient HistoryEconomic History
In Power from Below in Premodern Societies: The Dynamics of Political Complexity in the Archaeological Record, edited by T. L. Thurston and Manuel Fernandez-Götz, pp. 220–246. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021).
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      ArchaeologyPolitical AnthropologyPolitical ScienceMesoamerican Archaeology
Fired-clay figurines and whistles are common, yet diverse, components of ceramic assemblages at Classic period sites in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Drawing on a large assemblage of figurines from four excavated sites in this region,... more
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      ArchaeologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyReligion and ritual in prehistoryCeramic Analysis (Archaeology)