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Title:After Monte Albán : Transformation & Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico
Author:Jeffrey P Blomster (ed)
ISBN:0870818961 : 9780870818967
Illustrations:19 b/w photos, 83 line drawings, 11 maps, 16 tables
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:438
Weight: .652 Kg.
Published:University Press of Colorado - March 2008
List Price: 43.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Central American & Caribbean archaeology: Mexico


Reveals the richness and interregional relevance of Post-classic 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 700CE, including the great Zapotec state centred 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 legitimisation. The vast majority of the population, though, sustained continuity in lifestyle, religion, and cosmology. Contributors synthesise 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 Post-classic that will be crucial to future investigations.

Part I: The Late Classics / Post-classic in Oaxaca - An Introduction; Part II: Chronology, Continuity and Disjunction - Etic and Emic Perspectives; Part III: Continuity and Abandonment of Houses in the Valley of Oaxaca - Lambityeco and Macuilxóchitl; Part IV: Changing Power Relations and Interaction in the Lower Rio Verde Valley; Part V: Sacred History and Legitimisation in the Mixteca Alta; Part VI: New Research Frontiers in Oaxaca and Eastern Guerreo; Index.

"After Monte Albán truly fills a void in current archaeological perspectives on the development of late pre-Hispanic Oaxacan civilizations, placing them at the forefront of a new synthesis and at the same time highlighting a frontier of exciting research avenues for the future." -- Marilyn Masson, University at Albany (SUNY). "This is without a doubt one of the best volumes ever to be produced on the ancient history of Oaxaca." -- Heather S Orr, Western State College of Colorado.