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

Andew K. Balkansky 2002
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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.
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Series
  • Memoirs
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-915703-53-1 (paper)
  • 978-1-951519-90-2 (ebook)
Subject
  • Archaeology
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  • Table of Contents

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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
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