Name: Fabrica San Jose and Middle Formative Society in the Valley of Oaxaca
Author: Drennan, Robert D.
ISBN: 9780932206701

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Fabrica San Jose and Middle Formative Society in the Valley of Oaxaca

by Robert D. Drennan

University of Michigan Press, 2019
Paper: 978-0-932206-70-1 | eISBN: 978-1-949098-70-9

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

In the early 1970s, Robert D. Drennan excavated the Middle Formative archaeological site Fábrica San José in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. In this volume he presents the results of the excavations and provides a chronology of Middle Formative ceramics. Appendix on carbonized plant remains by Richard I. Ford.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction, by Kent V. Flannery

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

1. Fabrica San Jose and Its Setting

2. The Excavations

3. Provenience Designations

II. Chronology and Ceramics

1. Changing Sherds into Data

2. Middle Formative Ceramic Wares

3. Middle Formative Vessel Forms

4. Fidencio Coarse Olla Attributes

5. Socorro Fine Gray Outleaned Wall Bowl Attributes

6. Atoyac Yellow-White Outleaned Wall Bowl Attributes

8. Similarity Coefficient

9. Scaling the Proveniences

10. Interpreting the Scaling

11. Synthesis of Ceramic Change

12. Descriptions of Phases

13. Fitting Other Proveniences into the Sequence

14. Conclusion

1. Household Clusters

2. The Tierras Largas Phase Occupation

IV. The Early Guadalupe Phase Community

1. Household Cluster EG-1

3. Household Cluster EG-3

5. Summary

V. The Late Guadalupe Phase Community

1. Household Cluster LG-1

3. Household Cluster LG-3

4. Household Cluster LG-4

5. Household Cluster LG-5

6. Household Cluster LG-6

7. Household Cluster LG-7

8. Household Cluster LG-8

9. Household Cluster LG-9

13. Summary

VI. The Rosario Phase Community

1. Household Cluster R-1

2. Household Cluster R-2

3. Household Cluster R-3

4. Household Cluster R-4

6. Household Cluster R-6

8. Household Cluster R-8

9. Household Cluster R-9

11. Proveniences Not Assigned to Household Clusters

12. Summary

1. Specialized Activities

2. Internal Organization and External Relations

3. Conclusion

I. Counts of Combinations of Ceramic Wares and Vessel Forms

II. Counts of Fidencio Coarse Olla Attributes

III. Counts of Socorro Fine Gray Outleaned Wall Bowl Attributes

IV. Counts of Atoyac Yellow-White Outleaned Wall Bowl Attributes

V. Index of Middle Formative Proveniences

VI. Chipped Stone Artifacts

VII. Ground and Pecked Stone Artifacts

VIII. Modified and Unmodified Bone

IX. Miscellaneous Artifacts

X. Figurines

XI. Middle Formative Burials

XII. Evidence for Salt Production at Fabrica San Jose

XIII. Carbonized Plant Remains, by Richard I. Ford

XIV. Post-Middle Formative Features and Burials

Resumen en Espanol

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