Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Foreword
  • 1. Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca: An Introduction
  • 2. Paleoecological Evidence for Early Agriculture and Forest Clearance in Coastal Oaxaca
  • 3. Anthropogenic Landscape Change and the Human Ecology of the Lower Río·Verde Valley
  • 4. Formative Period Burial Practices and Cemeteries
  • 5. Place-Making and Power in the Terminal Formative: Excavations on Río Viejo's Acropolis
  • 6. Defining Community and Status at Outlying Sites during the Terminal Formative Period
  • 7. Coastal/Highland Interaction in Oaxaca, Mexico: The Perspective from San Francisco de Arriba
  • 8. Examining Ceramic Evidence for the Zapotec Imperialism Hypothesis in the Lower Río Verde Region of Oaxaca, Mexico
  • 9. From Flesh to Clay: Formative Period Iconography from Oaxaca's Lower Río Verde Valley
  • 10. Coastal Oaxaca and Formative Developments in Mesoamerica
  • List of Contributors
  • Index