Contents
List Of Tables
List Of Figures
List Of Plates
Introduction To Volume 12
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
What This Book Is About
A Brief History of Oaxaca Archaeology
A Surveyor's Guide to Ancient Oaxaca
How Survey Sets the Agenda
Evaluating Approaches to Social Evolution
Monte Alban and the Evolution of Zapotec Civilization
The Emerging Perspective: Regional Variation but Uniform Processes
The Organization of This Book
Chapter 2. The Regional Archaeology of the Sola Valley
Questions Guiding the Sola Valley Survey
The Sola Valley Study Region
The 1995-1996 Sola Valley Settlement Pattern Project
Overview of the Project Results
The Ia Phase (Middle Formative)
The Ie Phase (Late Formative)
Period II (Terminal Formative)
The Zapotec Expansion
Period IlIa (Early Classic)
Period I1Ib-IV (Late Classic-Early Postclassic)
The Territorial Limits of the Zapotec State
Period V (Late Postclassic)
Sola's Historical Kingdoms
Chapter 6. Summary and Conclusions
Sola Valley Settlement Patterns 500 B.C.- A. D. 1521
Answering Questions about the Sola Valley
How the Regional Trajectories Compare
How the Macroregion Changes Views about Monte Alban
Implications of This Study
Conclusions
Chapter 7. Carved Stones From The Sola Valley Oaxaca by Joyce Marcus
Chapter 8. Shell From Sola De Vega by Linda M. Nicholas and Gary M. Feinman
Chapter 9. Resumen En Espanol
Appendix A. Site Descriptions And Maps
Appendix B. Structure Summaries
Appendix C. Site Summaries By Phase
Appendix D. Productive Potentials By Phase
Bibliography