Regional Archaeology and Local Interests in Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca

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ID4373597
AutoresA Kowalewski (0000-0002-3506-6160), Stefan P Brannan, Stefan Brannan, Marisol Yadira Cortés Vilchis, Laura Diego Luna, Laura Luna (0000-0003-2373-8131), Gabriela García Ayala, José Leonardo López Zárate, Fernando Méndez Sobel, Laura R Stiver Walsh, Laura Walsh (0000-0003-1368-0298), Ellen B Turck, John A Turck, Sergei Vepretskiy
Ano2017
Volume28
Fascículo3
Páginas353-372
Data de publicação2017-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/laq.2017.19
OpenAlexW2744922318
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas22

The Recorrido Arqueológico de Coixtlahuaca (RAC) presents period-by-period settlement pattern maps for the valley of Coixtlahuaca in the northern Mixteca Alta. The RAC project made improvements in full-coverage survey methods. We identify limitations and suggest that similar projects in the future need to resolve several management and budget problems. The survey revealed two periods of heavy occupation, 700-300 BC and AD 1200-1520, separated by a long period of lower population. Archaeological and historical data indicate that during the AD 1200-1520 period, and probably earlier, small landholders organized in strong communities managed an intensive agroecosystem, investing in landesque capital. Urbanization was impressive, yet cities were aggregations of communities and barrios. Today local citizens pose questions about how the large prehispanic population could have organized and sustained itself; these questions coincide with anthropological interest in collective agency, property, landesque capital, and collapse

Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Business · Capital (architecture · Capital city · Economic geography · Economic growth · Geography · Human settlement · Period (music · Population · Population growth · Settlement (finance · Social science · Sociology · Urbanization · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Latin American history and culture · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics · Demography