book chapter
Monte Albán: settlement patterns at the ancient Zapotec capital
Academic Press • New York • Published In 1978 • Pages: i-xx, 1-166, 195-378, 417-451
By: Blanton, Richard E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work describes and analyzes the data collected during the first phase of the Valley of Oaxaca Settlement Pattern Project - which consisted of the detailed mapping and surface collection of the region's major archaeological site, Monte Albán (p. xxiii). With the achievement of these goals it was hoped that the information obtained would be instrumental in contributing to measurement, inference, and hypothesis testing in the following areas: (1) the establishment of the site's ancient function and nature; (2) determination of changes through time in the extent and density of occupation of the site, and estimation of population based on these data; (3) outline of change through time in the city's internal organization, especially as this contributes to an understanding of changing patterns of political control and social stratification, as well as the city's changing regional role in these areas; and (4) elucidation of the nature of craft production and exchange within the community and its regional economic role (pp. 6-7).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Maps
- Topography and geology
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Territorial hierarchy
- Dwellings
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Highland Mesoamerican Late Preclassic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- General Middle America and the Caribbean
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2600-1700 BP (600 BC-AD 300)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Monte Albán, Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard E. Blanton
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-447) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77011917
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zapotec Indians--Antiquities/Zapotec Indians--Land tenure/Land settlement patterns--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley/Monte Albán Site (Mexico)Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Antiquities