Robert S Santley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 75894 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert S Santley |
| NOMBRES | Robert S |
| APELLIDO | Santley |
| FIRMA | SANTLEY R S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 343 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Mesoamerican Lithic Technology
The Obsidian Trade to the Tuxtlas Region and Its Implications for the Prehistory of Southern Veracruz, Mexico
Evidence from the Tuxtla Mountains in southern Veracruz suggests that Teotihuacan established a base at Matacapan, the region's top-ranking center, sometime during the Early Classic period. This development in Tuxtlas's prehistory was associated with the founding of Matacapan, a major shift in settlement pattern, and the presence of substantial amounts of Fine Buff, a lower fired variant of Fine Orange that resembles Copa ware, a common Middle Cl…
Prehistoric Salt Production at El Salado, Veracruz, Mexico
El Salado is a prehispanic salt production site located in the Tuxtla Mountains of southern Veracruz, Mexico. Fieldwork at the site was conducted to determine the methods of salt production, the character of the archaeological residues produced, the scale of the industry, and the history of production. El Salado contains two major occupations, the first dating to the Early Formative period and the second to the Late Classic period. During the Ear…
What Was Teotihuacan Doing in the Maya Region
Since the 1930s, archaeologists have discovered startling evidence of cultural interaction between the Early Classic Maya and the great Central Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan. This book reports on these findings on a case-by-case basis and offers new interpretations concerning the range of those interactions. My review of this work is in two parts. First, I summarize the results reported. I then compare them with recent findings from Matacapan…
Cultural Evolution
Classic Period Mixtequilla, Veracruz, Mexico
Pre-Hispanic Obsidian Procurement in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
This paper discusses the results of recent instrumental neutron-activation analysis (INNA) work identifying the obsidian sources relied upon in the Tuxtla Mountains of southern Veracruz in pre-Hispanic times. Our research indicates that Guadalupe Victoria and, secondarily, Zaragoza obsidian were the main sources imported to the Tuxtlas during the Early and Middle Formative periods. In contrast, Zaragoza became the dominant source relied upon from…
Settlement Pattern Studies in the Americas
U New Mexico for the Record
Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
The Economy of Ancient Matacapan
In 1979 I initiated a program of archaeological fieldwork in the Tuxtlas Mountains in southern Veracruz, Mexico. One of the working hypotheses guiding this research was that Matacapan, the principal archaeological site in the area, headed a political economy dominated by persons from the great central Mexican center of Teotihuacan. In this paper I present evidence characterizing the economy that Matacapan dominated during the Classic period. My c…
Prehispanic domestic units in western Mesoamerica
Prehispanic Exchange Relationships among Central Mexico, the Valley of Oaxaca, and the Gulf Coast of Mexico
Intensive Ceramic Production and Classic-Period Political Economy in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico
Matacapan, a Classic-period center in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico, is known for its strong stylistic affinities with Teotihuacan. The Comoapan complex is a ceramic-production area situated along the southern edge of Matacapan. Data from Comoapan indicate that pottery manufacture was large scale and intensive, with final products distributed outside of Matacapan and possibly beyond the Tuxtlas. These data suggest that models of Tux…
Debating Oaxaca Archaeology
This volume grew out of the 1987 meeting of the Northeast Mesoamericanists Society, held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia--Pref
The Politicization of the Mesoamerican Ballgame and Its Implications for the Interpretation of the Distribution of Ballcourts in Central Mexico
Stone Tool Use at Cerros
The Ceramics Production System at Matacapan, Veracruz, Mexico
This paper describes the evidence for specialized ceramics production at Matacapan, a large Classic-period site in the Tuxtlas Mountains of southern Veracruz, Mexico. The ceramics production system at Matacapan contained a larger number of production nodes. These production entities varied greatly in size, complexity, and internal differentiation, suggesting that there were major differences in the mode of production. Many of these production sit…
The Economics of Urbanization and State Formation at Teotihuacan [and Comments and Reply]
Peasant Capitalist Industry
Zapotec Stoneworkers
On the Maya Collapse
The collapse of Late Classic Maya civilization involved more than the disintegration of political structure. It involved a total system failure in which both centers and dependent villages were abandoned by elites and commoners alike. The lowland rainforest habitat where Maya civilization developed was not significantly reoccupied until comparatively recent times. The collapse was differential, in that centers in coastal areas or drier regions su…
The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets . Robert I. Gilbert , James H. Mielke
The Dynamics of Apocalypse
Animal Use by the Cozumel Maya . Nancy L. Hamblin
Symbiosis, Instability, and the Origins and Spread of Agriculture
Section 1 presents evidence that domestication and agriculture are evolutionary phenomena. They may be found in the relationships of many animals with plants. Domestication is the result of coevolved mutualisms between animals and plants. All domesticated plants show characteristics that are evidence of this mutualist relationship. Section 2 is a brief presentation of a model for the origin and spread of agriculture. Agricultural techniques trans…
Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
The Ceramics Production System at Matacapan, Veracruz, Mexico
This paper describes the evidence for specialized ceramics production at Matacapan, a large Classic-period site in the Tuxtlas Mountains of southern Veracruz, Mexico. The ceramics production system at Matacapan contained a larger number of production nodes. These production entities varied greatly in size, complexity, and internal differentiation, suggesting that there were major differences in the mode of production. Many of these production sit…
Intensive Ceramic Production and Classic-Period Political Economy in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico
Matacapan, a Classic-period center in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico, is known for its strong stylistic affinities with Teotihuacan. The Comoapan complex is a ceramic-production area situated along the southern edge of Matacapan. Data from Comoapan indicate that pottery manufacture was large scale and intensive, with final products distributed outside of Matacapan and possibly beyond the Tuxtlas. These data suggest that models of Tux…
Stone Tool Use at Cerros
Pre-Hispanic Obsidian Procurement in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
This paper discusses the results of recent instrumental neutron-activation analysis (INNA) work identifying the obsidian sources relied upon in the Tuxtla Mountains of southern Veracruz in pre-Hispanic times. Our research indicates that Guadalupe Victoria and, secondarily, Zaragoza obsidian were the main sources imported to the Tuxtlas during the Early and Middle Formative periods. In contrast, Zaragoza became the dominant source relied upon from…
On the Maya Collapse
The collapse of Late Classic Maya civilization involved more than the disintegration of political structure. It involved a total system failure in which both centers and dependent villages were abandoned by elites and commoners alike. The lowland rainforest habitat where Maya civilization developed was not significantly reoccupied until comparatively recent times. The collapse was differential, in that centers in coastal areas or drier regions su…
The Economy of Ancient Matacapan
In 1979 I initiated a program of archaeological fieldwork in the Tuxtlas Mountains in southern Veracruz, Mexico. One of the working hypotheses guiding this research was that Matacapan, the principal archaeological site in the area, headed a political economy dominated by persons from the great central Mexican center of Teotihuacan. In this paper I present evidence characterizing the economy that Matacapan dominated during the Classic period. My c…
Diet, nutrition and population dynamics in the Basin of Mexico
Most scholars concerned with the evolution of complex societies have tacitly assumed that population, growth was essentially a constant phenomenon in antiquity. Recent research, however, has shown not only that extreme variety in rates of growth occurs in both time and space but also that successful reproductive performance, and by implication the potential for population growth, is closely related to population nutritional status. The interrelat…
The Economics of Urbanization and State Formation at Teotihuacan [and Comments and Reply]
Prehistoric Salt Production at El Salado, Veracruz, Mexico
El Salado is a prehispanic salt production site located in the Tuxtla Mountains of southern Veracruz, Mexico. Fieldwork at the site was conducted to determine the methods of salt production, the character of the archaeological residues produced, the scale of the industry, and the history of production. El Salado contains two major occupations, the first dating to the Early Formative period and the second to the Late Classic period. During the Ear…
Debating Oaxaca Archaeology
This volume grew out of the 1987 meeting of the Northeast Mesoamericanists Society, held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia--Pref
Disembedded Capitals Reconsidered
The concept of a disembedded capital is viewed as a specious construct. The logical foundations of disembeddedness of political authority from local commerical hierarchies are viewed as largely untenable, at least in prehispanic Mesoamerica, and the close parallels between Monte Albán and Teotihuacán in terms of general site location, access to prime agricultural land, level of craft specialization required to meet local needs, and local market p…
A Prehispanic Irrigation System near Santa Clara Xalostoc in the Basin of Mexico
A major theoretical issue in studies of the cultural ecology of Central Mexico has been the role of irrigation in the evolution of the state in that area. A major methodological problem has been the location and dating of prehistoric canal systems. A recent discovery near Xalostoc, of a stratified canal system (representing three distinct periods) in the exposed profiles of contemporary adobe extraction pits, offers an ideal situation for dating …
Rates of Obsidian Utilization In Central Mexico and on the South Gulf Coast
This paper presents a series of estimates of the rate at which obsidian was used in domestic contexts in two regions of Mesoamerica. Rates of usage are found to have been remarkably low for all time periods, although there does appear to be a trend for consumption rates to increase with time. Rates of consumption at sites in the obsidian source region in Central Mexico and in areas such as the Tuxtlas Mountains which obtained lit hies by long-dis…
Ceramic Sequence in Colima
The Obsidian Trade to the Tuxtlas Region and Its Implications for the Prehistory of Southern Veracruz, Mexico
Evidence from the Tuxtla Mountains in southern Veracruz suggests that Teotihuacan established a base at Matacapan, the region's top-ranking center, sometime during the Early Classic period. This development in Tuxtlas's prehistory was associated with the founding of Matacapan, a major shift in settlement pattern, and the presence of substantial amounts of Fine Buff, a lower fired variant of Fine Orange that resembles Copa ware, a common Middle Cl…
Obscured by Clouds The Cloud People
Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
Deer Skins and Hunting Territories Reconsidered
Gramly (1977) has recently argued that competition over deer hids was the primary variable stimulating conflict and warfare among the Huron during Late Woodland times. This variable, as well as two others dismissed by him, is reviewed here
The Dynamics of Apocalypse
The Political Economy of the Aztec EmpireTrade, Tribute, and Transportation
The Aztecs Then and Now
A Prehispanic Irrigation System near Santa Clara Xalostoc in the Basin of Mexico
A major theoretical issue in studies of the cultural ecology of Central Mexico has been the role of irrigation in the evolution of the state in that area. A major methodological problem has been the location and dating of prehistoric canal systems. A recent discovery near Xalostoc, of a stratified canal system (representing three distinct periods) in the exposed profiles of contemporary adobe extraction pits, offers an ideal situation for dating …
On Theory in Archaeology
Diet, nutrition and population dynamics in the Basin of Mexico
Most scholars concerned with the evolution of complex societies have tacitly assumed that population, growth was essentially a constant phenomenon in antiquity. Recent research, however, has shown not only that extreme variety in rates of growth occurs in both time and space but also that successful reproductive performance, and by implication the potential for population growth, is closely related to population nutritional status. The interrelat…
Deer Skins and Hunting Territories Reconsidered
Gramly (1977) has recently argued that competition over deer hids was the primary variable stimulating conflict and warfare among the Huron during Late Woodland times. This variable, as well as two others dismissed by him, is reviewed here
Symbiosis, Instability, and the Origins and Spread of Agriculture
Section 1 presents evidence that domestication and agriculture are evolutionary phenomena. They may be found in the relationships of many animals with plants. Domestication is the result of coevolved mutualisms between animals and plants. All domesticated plants show characteristics that are evidence of this mutualist relationship. Section 2 is a brief presentation of a model for the origin and spread of agriculture. Agricultural techniques trans…
Disembedded Capitals Reconsidered
The concept of a disembedded capital is viewed as a specious construct. The logical foundations of disembeddedness of political authority from local commerical hierarchies are viewed as largely untenable, at least in prehispanic Mesoamerica, and the close parallels between Monte Albán and Teotihuacán in terms of general site location, access to prime agricultural land, level of craft specialization required to meet local needs, and local market p…
The Basin of Mexico
The Aztecs
Ceramic Sequence in Colima
Ancient Mesoamerica
Excavations at Santo Domingo Tomaltepec
Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
A Late Formative Irrigation Settlement below Monte Alban
Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part 1
Civilization in the Ancient Americas
Obscured by Clouds The Cloud People
Chalcatzingo, the Olmec Heartland, and the Gateway Community Hypothesis Chalcatzingo
The Olmecs
The Aztecs Then and Now
Recent Works on Aztec History
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The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets . Robert I. Gilbert , James H. Mielke
The Dynamics of Apocalypse
Animal Use by the Cozumel Maya . Nancy L. Hamblin
Social Adaptation to Food Stress
Rates of Obsidian Utilization In Central Mexico and on the South Gulf Coast
This paper presents a series of estimates of the rate at which obsidian was used in domestic contexts in two regions of Mesoamerica. Rates of usage are found to have been remarkably low for all time periods, although there does appear to be a trend for consumption rates to increase with time. Rates of consumption at sites in the obsidian source region in Central Mexico and in areas such as the Tuxtlas Mountains which obtained lit hies by long-dis…
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