Elsa M Redmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elsa M Redmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elsa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Redmond |
| SIGNATURE | REDMOND E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Museum of Natural History |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 482 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Ceramic exchange and the shifting political landscape in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, 700 BCE-200 CE
The Long and the Short of a War Leader’s Arena
Ceramic provenance and the regional organization of pottery production during the later Formative periods in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
Meeting with Resistance
This examination of the earliest Spanish-Amerindian encounters on Hispaniola and in Tierra Firme adopts a historical perspective on indigenous warfare. A chronological timeline monitors the recorded encounters and hostilities between the native Amerindian societies and the Spaniards from Columbus’s 1492 voyage until the destruction of the first permanent Spanish settlement of Santa María de la Antigua del Darién in 1524. The timeline evaluates th…
Dual organization and social inequality in a Venezuelan chiefdom, AD 550-1000
A pre-Hispanic chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela
Between 1983 and 1992, the authors conducted an archaeological project that involved five years of survey and excavation in a 450 km2 study region that included portions of the high llanos (savanna grasslands) and adjacent Andean piedmont in the state of Barinas, Venezuela. Fieldwork (in 1983–1988) was followed by four years of laboratory analysis in the Departamento de Antropología at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC…
Chiefdoms at the threshold
Ceramic Microtypology and the Territorial Expansion of the Early Monte Albán State in Oaxaca, Mexico
The Late and Terminal Formative (ca. 300 B.C. to A.D. 200) was the crucial period during which the early Monte Albán state came into being and began to extend its political influence over a wide area in what is now the Mexican state of Oaxaca. One of the most distinctive and frequent ceramic types of this period is the G.12, which is a grayware (gris) bowl with characteristic incising on the interior rim and base. Originally defined by Alfonso Ca…
Rituals of Sanctification and the Development of Standardized Temples in Oaxaca, Mexico
Archaeological investigations at three Formative period sites near San Martín Tilcajete in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, have recovered a sequence of temples. The temples span the period when the Zapotec state emerged with its capital at Monte Albán during the Late Monte Albán I phase (300–100 bc), coinciding with Monte Albán's conquest of neighbouring regions. Zapotec rituals of sanctification practised in pre-state times may have been affected …
M Glow Blue’
The Ford Nuclear Reactor operated from 1957 to 2003 on the University of Michigan's North Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Over its 45‐year lifespan, the facility played a key role in archaeometric research, fostering early methodological studies using INAA and supporting archaeological materials science investigations of lithics, ceramics, metals and bone. One small part of the FNR's abundant legacy was the initiation of trace‐element studies of O…
On the Logic of Archaeological Inference
The 2005 articles by Stoltman et al. and Flannery et al. to which Neff et al. (this issue) have responded are not an indictment of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) but, rather, of the way Blomster et al. (2005) misuse it and of the hyperbolic culture-historical claims they have made from their INAA results. It has long been acknowledged that INAA leads not to sources but to chemical composition groups. Based on composition groups d…
A Late Monte Albán I Phase (300–100 B.C.) Palace in the Valley of Oaxaca
A masonry and adobe construction called the “Area I Palace” was excavated by the authors at the site of El Palenque (SMT-llb), located near San Martín Tilcajete in the Ocotlán district of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. The Area I Palace covered 850 m 2 and consisted of nine interconnected structures, one of which was an elaborate residence that measured 16 m by 16 m and had eight rooms arranged around an interior patio. Several additional platform…
Primary State Formation in Mesoamerica
In this review, we examine the earliest states in Mesoamerica and how they developed. We present a definition of the state and explain why first-generation or primary states have special significance in anthropology and archaeology; we also discuss how anthropological archaeologists can detect the emergence of state organization in the archaeological record. We review the archaeological data bearing on early state formation in Oaxaca, the Souther…
Multilevel Selection and Political Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, 500–100 B.C
The Chronology of Conquest
Recently obtained radiocarbon determinations from the Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico, have made it possible to revise the chronological placement of the Perdido phase (from 600-200 B. C. to 750-300 B. C.) and the Lomas phase (from 200 B. C.-A. D. 200 to 300 B. C.-A. D. 200), the latter being the phase for which substantial evidence of a Zapotec conquest of the Cañada has been recovered. The revised chronology brings the Lomas phase into clos…
War in the Tribal Zone
Book Review| July 01 2001 War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare Edited by R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead. (Santa Fe,: School of American Research Press, 1999. 352 pp., new preface,introduction, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) Elsa M. Redmond Elsa M. Redmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 550–552. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-3-55…
The Sources of Chiefly Power
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Macroregional View of Cycling Chiefdoms in the Western Venezuelan Llanos
Complex chiefdoms are subject to oscillating cycles of regional political centralization under the domination of a paramount chief, followed by political dissolution, and frequently, the rise of a rival paramount chiefdom. A macroregional scale of investigation offers the best opportunity to examine the development of centralized, hierarchical leadership and the trajectories of such regional control at successive paramount centers. We present the…
Regional Archaeology in the Muisca Territory
Chiefdoms and chieftaincy in the Americas
Prehispanic Causeways and Regional Politics in the Llanos of Barinas, Venezuela
In this article we discuss the Prehispanic earthen causeways (calzadas) that traverse the llanos (humid savannas) of Barinas state, Venezuela. A salient question is why the calzadas in this area connect some archaeological sites but not others. Some scholars have proposed that the calzadas were constructed primarily as an adaptive response to seasonal flooding. We assess this proposition by examining Late Gaván phase (A. D. 550-1000) data from al…
Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America
External warfare and the internal politics of northern South American tribes and chiefdoms
Warfare is often cited as an important factor in the evolution of complex societies, though usually it appears at the end of a long list of factors that contributed to the development of chiefdoms and states, with little or no attempt to examine its precise operation and its contribution to the internal politics of these societies. A notable exception is Robert Carneiro, who views warfare as a significant mechanism of political evolution, which u…
Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on …
Drained Fields at La Tigra, Venezuelan Llanos
This paper discusses drained-field studies in Venezuela, beginning with the first investigations two decades ago that focused on field systems themselves and proceeding to recent research by the authors that examined the drained fields of La Tigra as part of a regional-scale project in the state of Barinas. The La Tigra fields are dated to the Late Gaván phase (A.D. 550-1000), a time of extensive habitation in the region. An analysis of excavated…
Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on …
A Fuego y Sangre
In this volume, Elsa M. Redmond reconstructs the history of the Cuicatec region in Oaxaca, Mexico, from the Middle Formative period through the Lomas phase, when the Zapotec state based at Monte Albán took control, into the Trujano phase and the Spanish conquest. Redmond integrates archaeological data and sixteenth-century ethnohistoric records to inform her study of the political and social strategies of the Cuicatec region during these time per…
Primary State Formation in Mesoamerica
In this review, we examine the earliest states in Mesoamerica and how they developed. We present a definition of the state and explain why first-generation or primary states have special significance in anthropology and archaeology; we also discuss how anthropological archaeologists can detect the emergence of state organization in the archaeological record. We review the archaeological data bearing on early state formation in Oaxaca, the Souther…
Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America
This book presents new data on warfare from both ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources. The author documents principal differences between tribal and chiefly warfare; outlines the evidence archaeologists can expect to recover from warfare; and formulates testable hypotheses on the role of warfare in social and political evolution. This monograph is part of a series on Latin American Ethnohistory and Archaeology
On the Logic of Archaeological Inference
The 2005 articles by Stoltman et al. and Flannery et al. to which Neff et al. (this issue) have responded are not an indictment of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) but, rather, of the way Blomster et al. (2005) misuse it and of the hyperbolic culture-historical claims they have made from their INAA results. It has long been acknowledged that INAA leads not to sources but to chemical composition groups. Based on composition groups d…
Multilevel Selection and Political Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, 500–100 B.C
Prehispanic chiefdoms of the western VenezuelanIlanos
The western Venezuelan llanos hold great potential for investigations into the organization and development of prehispanic chiefdoms. Recent research has revealed that beginning c. AD 500–600 dramatic cultural developments include the emergence of three‐level settlement hierarchies according to site size and architecture, substantial population growth, the appearance of social differentiation in residential and burial patterns, systems of drained…
War in the Tribal Zone
Book Review| July 01 2001 War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare Edited by R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead. (Santa Fe,: School of American Research Press, 1999. 352 pp., new preface,introduction, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) Elsa M. Redmond Elsa M. Redmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 550–552. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-3-55…
Drained Fields at La Tigra, Venezuelan Llanos
This paper discusses drained-field studies in Venezuela, beginning with the first investigations two decades ago that focused on field systems themselves and proceeding to recent research by the authors that examined the drained fields of La Tigra as part of a regional-scale project in the state of Barinas. The La Tigra fields are dated to the Late Gaván phase (A.D. 550-1000), a time of extensive habitation in the region. An analysis of excavated…
The Chronology of Conquest
Recently obtained radiocarbon determinations from the Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico, have made it possible to revise the chronological placement of the Perdido phase (from 600-200 B. C. to 750-300 B. C.) and the Lomas phase (from 200 B. C.-A. D. 200 to 300 B. C.-A. D. 200), the latter being the phase for which substantial evidence of a Zapotec conquest of the Cañada has been recovered. The revised chronology brings the Lomas phase into clos…
Prehispanic Causeways and Regional Politics in the Llanos of Barinas, Venezuela
In this article we discuss the Prehispanic earthen causeways (calzadas) that traverse the llanos (humid savannas) of Barinas state, Venezuela. A salient question is why the calzadas in this area connect some archaeological sites but not others. Some scholars have proposed that the calzadas were constructed primarily as an adaptive response to seasonal flooding. We assess this proposition by examining Late Gaván phase (A. D. 550-1000) data from al…
Regional Archaeology in the Muisca Territory
A Late Monte Albán I Phase (300–100 B.C.) Palace in the Valley of Oaxaca
A masonry and adobe construction called the “Area I Palace” was excavated by the authors at the site of El Palenque (SMT-llb), located near San Martín Tilcajete in the Ocotlán district of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. The Area I Palace covered 850 m 2 and consisted of nine interconnected structures, one of which was an elaborate residence that measured 16 m by 16 m and had eight rooms arranged around an interior patio. Several additional platform…
Rituals of Sanctification and the Development of Standardized Temples in Oaxaca, Mexico
Archaeological investigations at three Formative period sites near San Martín Tilcajete in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, have recovered a sequence of temples. The temples span the period when the Zapotec state emerged with its capital at Monte Albán during the Late Monte Albán I phase (300–100 bc), coinciding with Monte Albán's conquest of neighbouring regions. Zapotec rituals of sanctification practised in pre-state times may have been affected …
Ceramic Microtypology and the Territorial Expansion of the Early Monte Albán State in Oaxaca, Mexico
The Late and Terminal Formative (ca. 300 B.C. to A.D. 200) was the crucial period during which the early Monte Albán state came into being and began to extend its political influence over a wide area in what is now the Mexican state of Oaxaca. One of the most distinctive and frequent ceramic types of this period is the G.12, which is a grayware (gris) bowl with characteristic incising on the interior rim and base. Originally defined by Alfonso Ca…
M Glow Blue’
The Ford Nuclear Reactor operated from 1957 to 2003 on the University of Michigan's North Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Over its 45‐year lifespan, the facility played a key role in archaeometric research, fostering early methodological studies using INAA and supporting archaeological materials science investigations of lithics, ceramics, metals and bone. One small part of the FNR's abundant legacy was the initiation of trace‐element studies of O…
Dual organization and social inequality in a Venezuelan chiefdom, AD 550-1000
A Macroregional View of Cycling Chiefdoms in the Western Venezuelan Llanos
Complex chiefdoms are subject to oscillating cycles of regional political centralization under the domination of a paramount chief, followed by political dissolution, and frequently, the rise of a rival paramount chiefdom. A macroregional scale of investigation offers the best opportunity to examine the development of centralized, hierarchical leadership and the trajectories of such regional control at successive paramount centers. We present the…
Ceramic provenance and the regional organization of pottery production during the later Formative periods in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
A pre-Hispanic chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela
Between 1983 and 1992, the authors conducted an archaeological project that involved five years of survey and excavation in a 450 km2 study region that included portions of the high llanos (savanna grasslands) and adjacent Andean piedmont in the state of Barinas, Venezuela. Fieldwork (in 1983–1988) was followed by four years of laboratory analysis in the Departamento de Antropología at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC…
Ceramic exchange and the shifting political landscape in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, 700 BCE-200 CE
Meeting with Resistance
This examination of the earliest Spanish-Amerindian encounters on Hispaniola and in Tierra Firme adopts a historical perspective on indigenous warfare. A chronological timeline monitors the recorded encounters and hostilities between the native Amerindian societies and the Spaniards from Columbus’s 1492 voyage until the destruction of the first permanent Spanish settlement of Santa María de la Antigua del Darién in 1524. The timeline evaluates th…
A Fuego y Sangre
In this volume, Elsa M. Redmond reconstructs the history of the Cuicatec region in Oaxaca, Mexico, from the Middle Formative period through the Lomas phase, when the Zapotec state based at Monte Albán took control, into the Trujano phase and the Spanish conquest. Redmond integrates archaeological data and sixteenth-century ethnohistoric records to inform her study of the political and social strategies of the Cuicatec region during these time per…
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians
Prehispanic chiefdoms of the western VenezuelanIlanos
The western Venezuelan llanos hold great potential for investigations into the organization and development of prehispanic chiefdoms. Recent research has revealed that beginning c. AD 500–600 dramatic cultural developments include the emergence of three‐level settlement hierarchies according to site size and architecture, substantial population growth, the appearance of social differentiation in residential and burial patterns, systems of drained…
External warfare and the internal politics of northern South American tribes and chiefdoms
Warfare is often cited as an important factor in the evolution of complex societies, though usually it appears at the end of a long list of factors that contributed to the development of chiefdoms and states, with little or no attempt to examine its precise operation and its contribution to the internal politics of these societies. A notable exception is Robert Carneiro, who views warfare as a significant mechanism of political evolution, which u…
Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on …
Drained Fields at La Tigra, Venezuelan Llanos
This paper discusses drained-field studies in Venezuela, beginning with the first investigations two decades ago that focused on field systems themselves and proceeding to recent research by the authors that examined the drained fields of La Tigra as part of a regional-scale project in the state of Barinas. The La Tigra fields are dated to the Late Gaván phase (A.D. 550-1000), a time of extensive habitation in the region. An analysis of excavated…
Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America
This book presents new data on warfare from both ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources. The author documents principal differences between tribal and chiefly warfare; outlines the evidence archaeologists can expect to recover from warfare; and formulates testable hypotheses on the role of warfare in social and political evolution. This monograph is part of a series on Latin American Ethnohistory and Archaeology
Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America
Chiefdoms and chieftaincy in the Americas
Prehispanic Causeways and Regional Politics in the Llanos of Barinas, Venezuela
In this article we discuss the Prehispanic earthen causeways (calzadas) that traverse the llanos (humid savannas) of Barinas state, Venezuela. A salient question is why the calzadas in this area connect some archaeological sites but not others. Some scholars have proposed that the calzadas were constructed primarily as an adaptive response to seasonal flooding. We assess this proposition by examining Late Gaván phase (A. D. 550-1000) data from al…
The Sources of Chiefly Power
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Macroregional View of Cycling Chiefdoms in the Western Venezuelan Llanos
Complex chiefdoms are subject to oscillating cycles of regional political centralization under the domination of a paramount chief, followed by political dissolution, and frequently, the rise of a rival paramount chiefdom. A macroregional scale of investigation offers the best opportunity to examine the development of centralized, hierarchical leadership and the trajectories of such regional control at successive paramount centers. We present the…
Regional Archaeology in the Muisca Territory
Multilevel Selection and Political Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, 500–100 B.C
The Chronology of Conquest
Recently obtained radiocarbon determinations from the Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico, have made it possible to revise the chronological placement of the Perdido phase (from 600-200 B. C. to 750-300 B. C.) and the Lomas phase (from 200 B. C.-A. D. 200 to 300 B. C.-A. D. 200), the latter being the phase for which substantial evidence of a Zapotec conquest of the Cañada has been recovered. The revised chronology brings the Lomas phase into clos…
War in the Tribal Zone
Book Review| July 01 2001 War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare Edited by R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead. (Santa Fe,: School of American Research Press, 1999. 352 pp., new preface,introduction, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) Elsa M. Redmond Elsa M. Redmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 550–552. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-3-55…
A Late Monte Albán I Phase (300–100 B.C.) Palace in the Valley of Oaxaca
A masonry and adobe construction called the “Area I Palace” was excavated by the authors at the site of El Palenque (SMT-llb), located near San Martín Tilcajete in the Ocotlán district of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. The Area I Palace covered 850 m 2 and consisted of nine interconnected structures, one of which was an elaborate residence that measured 16 m by 16 m and had eight rooms arranged around an interior patio. Several additional platform…
Primary State Formation in Mesoamerica
In this review, we examine the earliest states in Mesoamerica and how they developed. We present a definition of the state and explain why first-generation or primary states have special significance in anthropology and archaeology; we also discuss how anthropological archaeologists can detect the emergence of state organization in the archaeological record. We review the archaeological data bearing on early state formation in Oaxaca, the Souther…
On the Logic of Archaeological Inference
The 2005 articles by Stoltman et al. and Flannery et al. to which Neff et al. (this issue) have responded are not an indictment of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) but, rather, of the way Blomster et al. (2005) misuse it and of the hyperbolic culture-historical claims they have made from their INAA results. It has long been acknowledged that INAA leads not to sources but to chemical composition groups. Based on composition groups d…
M Glow Blue’
The Ford Nuclear Reactor operated from 1957 to 2003 on the University of Michigan's North Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Over its 45‐year lifespan, the facility played a key role in archaeometric research, fostering early methodological studies using INAA and supporting archaeological materials science investigations of lithics, ceramics, metals and bone. One small part of the FNR's abundant legacy was the initiation of trace‐element studies of O…
Ceramic Microtypology and the Territorial Expansion of the Early Monte Albán State in Oaxaca, Mexico
The Late and Terminal Formative (ca. 300 B.C. to A.D. 200) was the crucial period during which the early Monte Albán state came into being and began to extend its political influence over a wide area in what is now the Mexican state of Oaxaca. One of the most distinctive and frequent ceramic types of this period is the G.12, which is a grayware (gris) bowl with characteristic incising on the interior rim and base. Originally defined by Alfonso Ca…
Rituals of Sanctification and the Development of Standardized Temples in Oaxaca, Mexico
Archaeological investigations at three Formative period sites near San Martín Tilcajete in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, have recovered a sequence of temples. The temples span the period when the Zapotec state emerged with its capital at Monte Albán during the Late Monte Albán I phase (300–100 bc), coinciding with Monte Albán's conquest of neighbouring regions. Zapotec rituals of sanctification practised in pre-state times may have been affected …
Chiefdoms at the threshold
A pre-Hispanic chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela
Between 1983 and 1992, the authors conducted an archaeological project that involved five years of survey and excavation in a 450 km2 study region that included portions of the high llanos (savanna grasslands) and adjacent Andean piedmont in the state of Barinas, Venezuela. Fieldwork (in 1983–1988) was followed by four years of laboratory analysis in the Departamento de Antropología at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC…
Dual organization and social inequality in a Venezuelan chiefdom, AD 550-1000
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