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Style and social complexity in Formative Mesoamerica
formation of complex society in southeastern mesoamerica • Boca Raton • Published In 1991 • Pages: 47-76
By: Love, Michael W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study investigates the development of complex society during the Early and Middle Formative periods (1300-500 B.C.) along the Río Naranjo and coastal plain of Chiapas, Mexico and San Marcos, Guatemala. Love discusses the changing settlement patterns of the region during the Ocós, Cuadros, and Jocotal phases of the Early Formative. In addition he discusses the stylistic changes of ceramics from the La Blanca site in Chiapas, Mexico. He concludes that ranking on the household level occurred at least by the Conchas phase.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Visual arts
- Status, role, and prestige
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Preclassic Maya
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- 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
- Maya Area
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1983-1985 (Río Naranjo Project)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3300-1500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- La Blanca, Chiapas, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael W. Love
- Revised papers from the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. 1987, and additional material
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-76)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91010478
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities