Recent Advances in Mixtec Archaeology

Verónica Pérez Rodríguez

doi:10.1007/s10814-012-9060-y

Recent Advances in Mixtec Archaeology

Verónica Pérez Rodríguez

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Current research in the Mixteca region of Mexico has revealed that Formative communities were as populous as in other Mesoamerican regions. Evidence of emerging social complexity is associated with the use of and access to luxury items of foreign style and/or manufacture. Research efforts draw from indigenous models to interpret data and investigate urbanism. Regional and environmental approaches, household studies, and ethnohistory are integrated to study ethnic diversity and the complex history of human occupation. The politics associated with cultural resource management and community archaeology in the Mixteca also are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	75-121
Number of pages	47
Journal	Journal of Archaeological Research
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-012-9060-y
State	Published - Mar 2013

Keywords

Ethnohistory
Households
Mesoamerica
Regional studies
Urbanism

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Archaeology
Archaeology
General Arts and Humanities

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El calendario mexicano. Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Historia XVII: 41–96. Caso, A. (1961). Los lienzos mixtecos de Ihuitlan y Antonio de Le{\'o}n. In Homenaje a Pablo Mart{\'i}nez del R{\'i}o en XXV aniversario de la edici{\'o}n de {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Los or{\'i}genes americanos,{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} Instituto Nacional de Antropolog{\'i}a e Historia, Mexico, pp. 237–274. Chance, J. K. (2009). Marriage alliances among colonial Mixtec elites: The Villag{\'o}mez Caciques of Acatl{\'a}n Petlalcingo. Ethnohistory 56: 91–123. Chassen-L{\'o}pez, F. R. (1998). Maderismo or Mixtec empire? Class and ethnicity in the Mexican Revolution, Costa Chica of Oaxaca, 1911. The Americas 55: 91–127. Chassen-L{\'o}pez, F. R. (2004). From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico 1867–1911, Pennsylvania State University Press and Eurospan, University Park. Ch{\'a}vez Rojas, J. M., Fern{\'a}ndez D{\'a}vila, E., Freire Valencia, L., Alfaro Castro, M. E., and Ru{\'i}z R{\'i}os, I. G. (2009). Informe t{\'e}cnico final del rescate arqueol{\'o}gico realizado en nueve tumbas prehisp{\'a}nicas ubicadas en los sitios arqueol{\'o}gicos Inguiteria y La Muralla, Municipio de San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca. Instituto Nacional de Antropolog{\'i}a e Historia, Mexico. Christensen, A. F. (1998). Colonization and microevolution in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico. World Archaeology 30: 262–285. Christensen, A. F. (1998). Ethnohistorical evidence for interbreeding among the pre-hispanic Mixtec royal caste. Human Biology 70: 563–577. Cook, S. (1995). B. Traven and the paradox of artisanal production in capitalism: Traven{\textquoteright}s Oaxaca tale in economic anthropological perspective. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 11(1): 75–111. Cruz Ortiz, A. (1998). Yakua kuia: el nudo del tiempo, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog{\'i}a Social, Mexico. Dahlgren, B. (1990). 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Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Historia XVII: 41–96. Caso, A. (1961). Los lienzos mixtecos de Ihuitlan y Antonio de León. In Homenaje a Pablo Martínez del Río en XXV aniversario de la edición de ‘‘Los orígenes americanos,’’ Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, pp. 237–274. Chance, J. K. (2009). Marriage alliances among colonial Mixtec elites: The Villagómez Caciques of Acatlán Petlalcingo. Ethnohistory 56: 91–123. Chassen-López, F. R. (1998). Maderismo or Mixtec empire? Class and ethnicity in the Mexican Revolution, Costa Chica of Oaxaca, 1911. The Americas 55: 91–127. Chassen-López, F. R. (2004). From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico 1867–1911, Pennsylvania State University Press and Eurospan, University Park. Chávez Rojas, J. M., Fernández Dávila, E., Freire Valencia, L., Alfaro Castro, M. E., and Ruíz Ríos, I. G. (2009). Informe técnico final del rescate arqueológico realizado en nueve tumbas prehispánicas ubicadas en los sitios arqueológicos Inguiteria y La Muralla, Municipio de San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. Christensen, A. F. (1998). Colonization and microevolution in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico. World Archaeology 30: 262–285. Christensen, A. F. (1998). Ethnohistorical evidence for interbreeding among the pre-hispanic Mixtec royal caste. Human Biology 70: 563–577. Cook, S. (1995). B. Traven and the paradox of artisanal production in capitalism: Traven’s Oaxaca tale in economic anthropological perspective. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 11(1): 75–111. Cruz Ortiz, A. (1998). Yakua kuia: el nudo del tiempo, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico. Dahlgren, B. (1990). La grana cochinilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. Esparza, M. (ed.) (1994) Relacions geográficas de Oaxaca, 1777–1778, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Instituto Oaxaqueños de las Culturas, Oaxaca, Mexico. Fargher, L. F., Heredia Espinoza, V. Y., and Blanton, R. E. (2011). Alternative pathways to power in late Postclassic highland Mesoamerica. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30: 306–326. Fernández Dávila, E., and Chávez Rojas, J. M. (2008) Informe: Rescate arqueológico agencia municipal de San Miguel Aztatla, Municipio de Concepción Buenavista, Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca, México. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. Gaxiola González, M. (2008) Huamelulpan, Oaxaca. Arqueología Mexicana XV(90): 34–35. Gerhard, P. (1977). Congregaciones de indios en la nueva España antes de 1570. Historia Mexicana 26: 347–395. Gutiérrez Mendoza, G. (2007). 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N2 - Current research in the Mixteca region of Mexico has revealed that Formative communities were as populous as in other Mesoamerican regions. Evidence of emerging social complexity is associated with the use of and access to luxury items of foreign style and/or manufacture. Research efforts draw from indigenous models to interpret data and investigate urbanism. Regional and environmental approaches, household studies, and ethnohistory are integrated to study ethnic diversity and the complex history of human occupation. The politics associated with cultural resource management and community archaeology in the Mixteca also are discussed.

AB - Current research in the Mixteca region of Mexico has revealed that Formative communities were as populous as in other Mesoamerican regions. Evidence of emerging social complexity is associated with the use of and access to luxury items of foreign style and/or manufacture. Research efforts draw from indigenous models to interpret data and investigate urbanism. Regional and environmental approaches, household studies, and ethnohistory are integrated to study ethnic diversity and the complex history of human occupation. The politics associated with cultural resource management and community archaeology in the Mixteca also are discussed.

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