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The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State: A Study of Zapotec Imperial Expansion
Andew K. Balkansky
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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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Contents
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List Of Tables
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List Of Figures
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List Of Plates
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Introduction To Volume 12
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Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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What This Book Is About
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A Brief History of Oaxaca Archaeology
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A Surveyor's Guide to Ancient Oaxaca
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How Survey Sets the Agenda
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Evaluating Approaches to Social Evolution
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Monte Alban and the Evolution of Zapotec Civilization
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The Emerging Perspective: Regional Variation but Uniform Processes
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The Organization of This Book
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Chapter 2. The Regional Archaeology of the Sola Valley
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Models for the Oaxaca Macroregion
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Questions Guiding the Sola Valley Survey
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The Sola Valley Study Region
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The 1995-1996 Sola Valley Settlement Pattern Project
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Overview of the Project Results
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Chapter 3. The Sola Valley in the Formative Period
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The Ia Phase (Middle Formative)
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The Ie Phase (Late Formative)
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Period II (Terminal Formative)
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The Zapotec Expansion
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Chapter 4. The Sola Valley in The Classic to Early Postclassic Period
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Period IlIa (Early Classic)
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Period I1Ib-IV (Late Classic-Early Postclassic)
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The Territorial Limits of the Zapotec State
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Chapter 5. The Sola Valley in The Late Postclassic Period
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Period V (Late Postclassic)
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Sola's Historical Kingdoms
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Chapter 6. Summary and Conclusions
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What Sola Tells Us about Monte Alban-What Monte Alban Tells Us about Sola
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Sola Valley Settlement Patterns 500 B.C.- A. D. 1521
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Answering Questions about the Sola Valley
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How the Regional Trajectories Compare
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How the Macroregion Changes Views about Monte Alban
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Implications of This Study
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Conclusions
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Chapter 7. Carved Stones From The Sola Valley Oaxaca by Joyce Marcus
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Chapter 8. Shell From Sola De Vega by Linda M. Nicholas and Gary M. Feinman
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Chapter 9. Resumen En Espanol
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Appendix A. Site Descriptions And Maps
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Appendix B. Structure Summaries
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Appendix C. Site Summaries By Phase
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Appendix D. Productive Potentials By Phase
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Bibliography
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Published: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- 978-1-951519-90-2 (ebook)
- 978-0-915703-53-1 (paper)