book chapter

The emergence of the Zapotec state

Zapotec civilization : how urban society evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley, Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery • New York, N.Y. • Published In 1996 • Pages: 172-194, 248

By: Marcus, Joyce, Flannery, Kent V..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

By Monte Albán II the Valley of Oaxaca was a unified state under the government centered at the site of Monte Albán. In this chapter, as in the last chapter, Marcus and Flannery discuss the evidence for it's state, including population, settlement patterns and central place hierarchy, public buildings (grand plazas, palaces, tombs, temples), offerings and rituals used to sanctify those temples, and ballcourts and the formalization of the Mesoamerican ballgame. The authors also compare Monte Albán with Chiapa de Corzo, 385 km to the east of Monte Albán.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Form and rules of government

Territorial hierarchy

Visual arts

Religious and educational structures

Prayers and sacrifices

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

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Sarah Berry; 2009

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

no date

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

2100-1800 BP (100 BC-AD 200)

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

NotesAdditional notes

Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

95060561

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Zapotec Indians--Antiquities

Zapotec Indians--Politics and government

Land settlement--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Antiquities