The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State: A Study of Zapotec Imperial Expansion

Balkansky, Andrew K.

doi:doi:10.3998/mpub.11394936

The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State: A Study of Zapotec Imperial Expansion

Andew K. Balkansky 2002

Balkansky's full-coverage survey of the Sola Valley, 65 km southwest of Oaxaca City, documents 120 sites. By combining his data with that of 13 other regions of Oaxaca, he produces a model for Zapotec state expansion that integrates colonization, diplomacy, and military conquest.

Series

Memoirs

ISBN(s)

978-0-915703-53-1 (paper)
978-1-951519-90-2 (ebook)

Subject

Archaeology

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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
- Models for the Oaxaca Macroregion
- Questions Guiding the Sola Valley Survey
- The Sola Valley Study Region
- The 1995-1996 Sola Valley Settlement Pattern Project
- Overview of the Project Results
Chapter 3. The Sola Valley in the Formative Period
- The Ia Phase (Middle Formative)
- The Ie Phase (Late Formative)
- Period II (Terminal Formative)
- The Zapotec Expansion
Chapter 4. The Sola Valley in The Classic to Early Postclassic Period
- Period IlIa (Early Classic)
- Period I1Ib-IV (Late Classic-Early Postclassic)
- The Territorial Limits of the Zapotec State
Chapter 5. The Sola Valley in The Late Postclassic Period
- Period V (Late Postclassic)
- Sola's Historical Kingdoms
Chapter 6. Summary and Conclusions
- What Sola Tells Us about Monte Alban-What Monte Alban Tells Us about Sola
- 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

The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State: A Study of Zapotec Imperial Expansion

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