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This volume reports on the excavation of Guil aquitz cave in
Oaxaca, a site that provides important evidence for the earliest
plant domestication in the New World. Stratigraphic studies,
examinations of artifactual and botanical remains, simulations, and
an imaginative reconstruction make this a model project of
processual archaeology.
In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study
of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd
dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to
evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior,
ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the
most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet
available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going
to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and
sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will
appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural
anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary
biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.
This volume reports on the excavation of Guila Naquitz cave in
Oaxaca, a site that provides important evidence for the earliest
plant domestication in the New World. Stratigraphic studies,
examinations of artifactual and botanical remains, simulations, and
an imaginative reconstruction make this a model project of
processual archaeology.
In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study
of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd
dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to
evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior,
ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the
most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet
available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going
to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and
sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will
appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural
anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary
biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.
One of the classic works of archaeology, The Early Mesoamerican
Village was among the first studies to fully embrace the processual
movement of the 1970s. Dancing around an ongoing dialogue on
methods and goals between the Real Mesoamerican Archaeologist, the
Great Synthesizer, and the Skeptical Graduate Student, it is both a
seminal tract on scientific method in archaeology and a series of
studies on formative Mesoamerica. It critically evaluates
techniques for excavation, sampling of sites and regions, and
stylistic analysis, as well as such theoretical factors of
explanation as population pressure, trade, and religion and
launched similar studies for several later generations of
archaeologists. A new Foreword by Jeremy Sabloff is featured in
this edition.
Cueva Blanca lies in a volcanic tuff cliff some 4 km northwest of
Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of a series of Archaic sites
excavated by Kent Flannery and Frank Hole as part of a project on
the prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca. The
oldest stratigraphic level in Cueva Blanca yielded Late Pleistocene
fauna, including some species no longer present in southern Mexico.
The second oldest level, Zone E, produced Early Archaic material
with calibrated dates as old as 11,000-10,000 BC . Zones D and C
provided a rich Late Archaic assemblage whose closest ties are with
the Abejas phase of Puebla's Tehuacan Valley (fourth millennium
BC). Spatial analyses undertaken on the Archaic living floors
include (1) the drawing of density contours for tools and animal
bones; (2) a search for Archaic tool kits using rank-order and
cluster analysis; and (3) an attempt to define Binfordian "drop
zones" using an approach drawn from computer vision.
San Jose Mogote is a 60-70 ha Formative site in the northern Valley
of Oaxaca, Mexico, which was occupied for a thousand years before
the city of Monte Alban was founded. Filling 432 pages and
utilizing more than 400 photographs and line drawings, this book
describes in detail more than 35 public buildings, including men's
houses, one-room temples, a performance platform, two-room state
temples, a ballcourt, and two types of palaces.
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