Jeffrey P Blomster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 101589 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jeffrey P Blomster |
| PRENOMES | Jeffrey P |
| SOBRENOME | Blomster |
| ASSINATURA | BLOMSTER J P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5466-158X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Animacy and Social Memory of Ruins at Etlatongo, Oaxaca
Rather than static traces of the past, ruins and ancient material objects represent dynamic and important generative components of communities. A relational ontology views objects and matter as animate; here we focus on their collaborative potential with humans to inspire memory practices that bring together ancestors and living humans, things, and landscapes in recursive relationships. Situated at Etlatongo in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico,…
Persistence in Practice
Although the Mixteca region has witnessed a long period of human occupation from before village societies were established to the present, traditional archaeological narratives tend to simplify this history by emphasizing singular points of origin and radical moments of change. Based on decolonial perspectives, we examine how persistence may be a more suitable framework for understanding the long history of human occupation in the region. Using i…
Commensalism, Imaginaries and Early Urbanism
Early urban societies feature specialized processes that integrate disparate populations as part of their social construction. One such process is commensalism and the associated display of exotica from interregional interaction. Hosts of a feast between 400 and 300 bce at the early urban centre of Etlatongo, in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico, displayed pottery that manifested relationships with urban elites at Monte Albán and other regions o…
Bodies, Bones, and Burials
Lead and strontium isotopes as tracers for Early Formative pottery exchange in ancient Mexico
Tratamiento Funerario y Organización Social en la Mixteca Alta
Este estudio busca comprender el comportamiento y las prácticas culturales que rodean el tratamiento funerario en la Mixteca Alta durante el Formativo. El tratamiento funerario implica todo el proceso que el cuerpo de un individuo tuvo durante y después de su entierro. Actualmente, los datos de los sitios de Etlatongo y Cerro Jazmín, localizados en ésta región, nos permiten entender las interacciones sociales a través de la muerte. Desde la bioar…
The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica
The Early Formative Olmec are central in a wide variety of debates regarding the development of Mesoamerican societies. A fundamental issue in Olmec archaeology is the nature of interregional interaction among contemporaneous societies and the possible Olmec role in it. Previous debates have often not been informed by recent research and data, often relying on materials lacking archaeological context. In order to approach these issues from new pe…
Early Olmec and Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica—Highland Formative (Early to Middle Formative) Figurines
Figurines are ubiquitous during the Early to Middle Formative (1400–500 bc) throughout the Mesoamerican highlands. As materializations of embodiment, figurines represent productions and performances of cultural practices. Two theses are pursued in this chapter: synchronic juxtapositions in figurine style evince strategies and negotiations of social actors, referencing identity, gender, social norms, affiliation, status and rank, and/or ethnicity,…
Knowing the dead in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca
The Naked and the Ornamented
Searching for Tollan
The Late Classic period ended in 800 ad with the demise of the largest state, Monte Albán, in prehispanic Oaxaca, Mexico. What collapsed was not society but the political systems and elite classes that mismanaged factional competition and they were no longer supported by commoners as they engaged in increasingly exclusionary strategies. In the wake of the collapse of many forms of their power, elites searched for new strategies and initiated a ne…
Obsidian procurement in formative Oaxaca, Mexico
Throughout Mesoamerica, archaeologists have found that compositional sourcing analysis of obsidian provides a valuable indicator of interregional interaction and political economy. We recently sourced obsidian from two different periods, the Early Formative (1200/1150–850 B.C.) and Middle/Late Formative (500–300 B.C.), at Etlatongo in the Nochixtlán Valley of the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico, to explore diachronic changes in its procurement. Vill…
Complexity, Interaction, and Epistemology
Interaction between the Gulf Coast Olmecs and various regions of Early Formative Mesoamerica remains debated and poorly understood. In Oaxaca, models have been dominated by neoevolutionary epistemology; interaction between the Valley of Oaxaca and San Lorenzo has been characterized by emulation or peer polity models. Data from the Valley of Oaxaca, the Nochixtlán Valley, and the Gulf Coast demonstrate that San Lorenzo was at a different level of …
Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
A recent study of Early Formative Mesoamerican pottery by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) yielded surprising results that prompted two critiques in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The INAA study indicated that the Olmec center of San Lorenzo was a major exporter of carved-incised and white pottery and that little if any pottery made elsewhere was consumed at San Lorenzo. The critiques purport to "overturn" the…
Smokescreens in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
We are glad that Sharer et al. (this issue) have dropped their original claim that the INAA data demonstrate multidirectional movement of Early Formative pottery. Beyond this, however, they offer nothing that might enhance understanding of Early Formative ceramic circulation or inspire new insights into Early Formative cultural evolution in Mesoamerica. Instead, their response contains fresh distortions, replications of mistakes made in their PNA…
Olmec Pottery Production and Export in Ancient Mexico Determined Through Elemental Analysis
The first Mesoamerican civilization, the Gulf Coast Olmec, is associated with hierarchical society, monumental art, and an internally consistent ideology, expressed in a distinct style and salient iconography. Whether the Olmec style arose in just one area or emerged from interactions among scattered contemporaneous societies remains controversial. Using elemental analysis, we determined the regional clay sources of 725 archaeological ceramic sam…
What and Where Is Olmec Style? Regional Perspectives on Hollow Figurines in Early Formative Mesoamerica
To understand better the significance of the Olmec style and its implications for Early Formative interregional interaction within Mesoamerica, one particular type of artifact—the hollow figurine—is examined. A definition of the Olmec style is provided based on Gulf Coast monumental art. One of several contemporaneous hollow-figurine types—“hollow babies” (Group 1)—is consistent with a Gulf Coast–based definition of the Olmec style. Fragments of …
Context, Cult, and Early Formative Period Public Ritual in the Mixteca Alta
From the Early and Middle Formative periods, hollow ceramic-baby figurines in the Olmec style—representing a suite of shared symbols and iconography—appear at sites throughout Mesoamerica. Hollow babies are usually reported without provenience, which has prevented a context-based analysis. The recent discovery of a hollow-baby figurine in a bell-shaped pit in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca provides the opportunity to examine the role and purported di…
Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
A recent study of Early Formative Mesoamerican pottery by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) yielded surprising results that prompted two critiques in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The INAA study indicated that the Olmec center of San Lorenzo was a major exporter of carved-incised and white pottery and that little if any pottery made elsewhere was consumed at San Lorenzo. The critiques purport to "overturn" the…
Smokescreens in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
We are glad that Sharer et al. (this issue) have dropped their original claim that the INAA data demonstrate multidirectional movement of Early Formative pottery. Beyond this, however, they offer nothing that might enhance understanding of Early Formative ceramic circulation or inspire new insights into Early Formative cultural evolution in Mesoamerica. Instead, their response contains fresh distortions, replications of mistakes made in their PNA…
Obsidian procurement in formative Oaxaca, Mexico
Throughout Mesoamerica, archaeologists have found that compositional sourcing analysis of obsidian provides a valuable indicator of interregional interaction and political economy. We recently sourced obsidian from two different periods, the Early Formative (1200/1150–850 B.C.) and Middle/Late Formative (500–300 B.C.), at Etlatongo in the Nochixtlán Valley of the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico, to explore diachronic changes in its procurement. Vill…
What and Where Is Olmec Style? Regional Perspectives on Hollow Figurines in Early Formative Mesoamerica
To understand better the significance of the Olmec style and its implications for Early Formative interregional interaction within Mesoamerica, one particular type of artifact—the hollow figurine—is examined. A definition of the Olmec style is provided based on Gulf Coast monumental art. One of several contemporaneous hollow-figurine types—“hollow babies” (Group 1)—is consistent with a Gulf Coast–based definition of the Olmec style. Fragments of …
Context, Cult, and Early Formative Period Public Ritual in the Mixteca Alta
From the Early and Middle Formative periods, hollow ceramic-baby figurines in the Olmec style—representing a suite of shared symbols and iconography—appear at sites throughout Mesoamerica. Hollow babies are usually reported without provenience, which has prevented a context-based analysis. The recent discovery of a hollow-baby figurine in a bell-shaped pit in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca provides the opportunity to examine the role and purported di…
Knowing the dead in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca
Complexity, Interaction, and Epistemology
Interaction between the Gulf Coast Olmecs and various regions of Early Formative Mesoamerica remains debated and poorly understood. In Oaxaca, models have been dominated by neoevolutionary epistemology; interaction between the Valley of Oaxaca and San Lorenzo has been characterized by emulation or peer polity models. Data from the Valley of Oaxaca, the Nochixtlán Valley, and the Gulf Coast demonstrate that San Lorenzo was at a different level of …
Lead and strontium isotopes as tracers for Early Formative pottery exchange in ancient Mexico
Persistence in Practice
Although the Mixteca region has witnessed a long period of human occupation from before village societies were established to the present, traditional archaeological narratives tend to simplify this history by emphasizing singular points of origin and radical moments of change. Based on decolonial perspectives, we examine how persistence may be a more suitable framework for understanding the long history of human occupation in the region. Using i…
Commensalism, Imaginaries and Early Urbanism
Early urban societies feature specialized processes that integrate disparate populations as part of their social construction. One such process is commensalism and the associated display of exotica from interregional interaction. Hosts of a feast between 400 and 300 bce at the early urban centre of Etlatongo, in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico, displayed pottery that manifested relationships with urban elites at Monte Albán and other regions o…
Tratamiento Funerario y Organización Social en la Mixteca Alta
Este estudio busca comprender el comportamiento y las prácticas culturales que rodean el tratamiento funerario en la Mixteca Alta durante el Formativo. El tratamiento funerario implica todo el proceso que el cuerpo de un individuo tuvo durante y después de su entierro. Actualmente, los datos de los sitios de Etlatongo y Cerro Jazmín, localizados en ésta región, nos permiten entender las interacciones sociales a través de la muerte. Desde la bioar…
Context, Cult, and Early Formative Period Public Ritual in the Mixteca Alta
From the Early and Middle Formative periods, hollow ceramic-baby figurines in the Olmec style—representing a suite of shared symbols and iconography—appear at sites throughout Mesoamerica. Hollow babies are usually reported without provenience, which has prevented a context-based analysis. The recent discovery of a hollow-baby figurine in a bell-shaped pit in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca provides the opportunity to examine the role and purported di…
What and Where Is Olmec Style? Regional Perspectives on Hollow Figurines in Early Formative Mesoamerica
To understand better the significance of the Olmec style and its implications for Early Formative interregional interaction within Mesoamerica, one particular type of artifact—the hollow figurine—is examined. A definition of the Olmec style is provided based on Gulf Coast monumental art. One of several contemporaneous hollow-figurine types—“hollow babies” (Group 1)—is consistent with a Gulf Coast–based definition of the Olmec style. Fragments of …
Olmec Pottery Production and Export in Ancient Mexico Determined Through Elemental Analysis
The first Mesoamerican civilization, the Gulf Coast Olmec, is associated with hierarchical society, monumental art, and an internally consistent ideology, expressed in a distinct style and salient iconography. Whether the Olmec style arose in just one area or emerged from interactions among scattered contemporaneous societies remains controversial. Using elemental analysis, we determined the regional clay sources of 725 archaeological ceramic sam…
Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
A recent study of Early Formative Mesoamerican pottery by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) yielded surprising results that prompted two critiques in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The INAA study indicated that the Olmec center of San Lorenzo was a major exporter of carved-incised and white pottery and that little if any pottery made elsewhere was consumed at San Lorenzo. The critiques purport to "overturn" the…
Smokescreens in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics
We are glad that Sharer et al. (this issue) have dropped their original claim that the INAA data demonstrate multidirectional movement of Early Formative pottery. Beyond this, however, they offer nothing that might enhance understanding of Early Formative ceramic circulation or inspire new insights into Early Formative cultural evolution in Mesoamerica. Instead, their response contains fresh distortions, replications of mistakes made in their PNA…
Complexity, Interaction, and Epistemology
Interaction between the Gulf Coast Olmecs and various regions of Early Formative Mesoamerica remains debated and poorly understood. In Oaxaca, models have been dominated by neoevolutionary epistemology; interaction between the Valley of Oaxaca and San Lorenzo has been characterized by emulation or peer polity models. Data from the Valley of Oaxaca, the Nochixtlán Valley, and the Gulf Coast demonstrate that San Lorenzo was at a different level of …
Obsidian procurement in formative Oaxaca, Mexico
Throughout Mesoamerica, archaeologists have found that compositional sourcing analysis of obsidian provides a valuable indicator of interregional interaction and political economy. We recently sourced obsidian from two different periods, the Early Formative (1200/1150–850 B.C.) and Middle/Late Formative (500–300 B.C.), at Etlatongo in the Nochixtlán Valley of the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico, to explore diachronic changes in its procurement. Vill…
Searching for Tollan
The Late Classic period ended in 800 ad with the demise of the largest state, Monte Albán, in prehispanic Oaxaca, Mexico. What collapsed was not society but the political systems and elite classes that mismanaged factional competition and they were no longer supported by commoners as they engaged in increasingly exclusionary strategies. In the wake of the collapse of many forms of their power, elites searched for new strategies and initiated a ne…
The Naked and the Ornamented
Knowing the dead in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca
The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica
The Early Formative Olmec are central in a wide variety of debates regarding the development of Mesoamerican societies. A fundamental issue in Olmec archaeology is the nature of interregional interaction among contemporaneous societies and the possible Olmec role in it. Previous debates have often not been informed by recent research and data, often relying on materials lacking archaeological context. In order to approach these issues from new pe…
Early Olmec and Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica—Highland Formative (Early to Middle Formative) Figurines
Figurines are ubiquitous during the Early to Middle Formative (1400–500 bc) throughout the Mesoamerican highlands. As materializations of embodiment, figurines represent productions and performances of cultural practices. Two theses are pursued in this chapter: synchronic juxtapositions in figurine style evince strategies and negotiations of social actors, referencing identity, gender, social norms, affiliation, status and rank, and/or ethnicity,…
Bodies, Bones, and Burials
Lead and strontium isotopes as tracers for Early Formative pottery exchange in ancient Mexico
Tratamiento Funerario y Organización Social en la Mixteca Alta
Este estudio busca comprender el comportamiento y las prácticas culturales que rodean el tratamiento funerario en la Mixteca Alta durante el Formativo. El tratamiento funerario implica todo el proceso que el cuerpo de un individuo tuvo durante y después de su entierro. Actualmente, los datos de los sitios de Etlatongo y Cerro Jazmín, localizados en ésta región, nos permiten entender las interacciones sociales a través de la muerte. Desde la bioar…
Commensalism, Imaginaries and Early Urbanism
Early urban societies feature specialized processes that integrate disparate populations as part of their social construction. One such process is commensalism and the associated display of exotica from interregional interaction. Hosts of a feast between 400 and 300 bce at the early urban centre of Etlatongo, in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico, displayed pottery that manifested relationships with urban elites at Monte Albán and other regions o…
Persistence in Practice
Although the Mixteca region has witnessed a long period of human occupation from before village societies were established to the present, traditional archaeological narratives tend to simplify this history by emphasizing singular points of origin and radical moments of change. Based on decolonial perspectives, we examine how persistence may be a more suitable framework for understanding the long history of human occupation in the region. Using i…
The Animacy and Social Memory of Ruins at Etlatongo, Oaxaca
Rather than static traces of the past, ruins and ancient material objects represent dynamic and important generative components of communities. A relational ontology views objects and matter as animate; here we focus on their collaborative potential with humans to inspire memory practices that bring together ancestors and living humans, things, and landscapes in recursive relationships. Situated at Etlatongo in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico,…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 obras) · Archaeology (13 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Latin American history and culture (13 obras) · Formative assessment (10 obras) · Mesoamerica (10 obras) · History (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 obras) · Art (6 obras)