Monte Albán : settlement patterns at the ancient Zapotec capital /
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| Author / Creator: | Blanton, Richard E. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Academic Press, c1978. |
| Description: | xxvi, 451 p. : ill., maps (1 fold. in pocket) ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in archeology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/185377 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- The Valley of Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Methodology
- Contemporary Monte Alban
- Periodization and Chronology
- The Contents of Subsequent Chapters
- 2. The Origins of Monte Alban
- Distribution and Size of Population
- The Main Plaza
- The Origins of Monte Alban
- Early Monte Alban Barrios
- Conclusions
- 3. Periods Late I and II
- Settlement Distribution
- Population Estimates
- Spatial Organization
- The Main Plaza and Site Subdivision 2 during Periods Late I and II
- Defensive Walls of Periods Late I and II
- Late I and Period II Irrigation Features
- Periods Late I and II: Conclusions
- 4. Monte Alban in Periods IIIa and IIIb-IV
- The Main Plaza in Periods IIIa and IIIb
- Accessibility of the Main Plaza
- The Monte Alban Barrios
- Descriptions of the Monte Alban Barrios
- An Overview of Craft Production at Monte Alban
- Household Variability during Period IIIb-IV
- Change through Time in the Use of Space at Monte Alban
- 5. Monte Alban from its Collapse Through Period V
- The Collapse of Monte Alban
- 6. Concluding Comments
- A Summary of Ideas about Monte Alban
- Appendixes
- Appendix I. Terrace Data
- Part 1.. Numerically Coded Data
- Part 2.. Data from Terrace Survey Forms
- Appendix II. Description of Ceramic Categories
- Introduction
- Category Descriptions
- Appendix III. Ceramic Tabulations
- Part 1.. Tabulations by Terrace
- Part 2.. Tabulations of Rare Ceramic Categories
- Appendix IV. Sherds Per Hectare of Collected Terrace Area, by Grid Square
- Appendix V. Sherds Per Hectare of Collected Terrace Area, by Site Subdivision
- Appendix VI. Area Descriptions
- Appendix VII. Monte Alban Grid Square Maps, 1:2000 Map Squares
- Appendix VIII. Figurines and Urn Fragments from the Monte Alban Survey
- Introduction
- Figurines
- Urns
- Appendix IX. Test Excavations at Terrace 1227
- Introduction
- Summary of Stratigraphy
- Tomb 177
- Feature 1
- Summary
- Appendix X. Structure Summary and Ink Drawings of Field Maps
- Structure Summary
- Ink Drawings of Field Maps
- References
- Index