On Oaxaca Coast Archaeology: Setting the Record Straight
| Autor: | Arthur A. Joyce, Judith Francis Zeitlin, Robert N. Zeitlin, Javier Urcid |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 41:623-625 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/317385 |
| Popis: | In a recent article published in the Journal of World Prehistory, Andrew Balkansky (1198) attempts to summarize recent archaeological research in Oaxaca, Mexico, focusing on the rise and fall of the region's complex societies. His article contains a number of significant factual errors with regard to our research. Because the Journal of World Prehistory will not accept rejoinders, we have been given the oppoturnity to publish this response here. A major focus of our research has been teh interaction between a developing Zapotec state, whose capital was located at Monte Alban in the highland Oaxaca Valley, and societies on Oaxaca's pacific coeast. Specifically, we have been investigating the impact of the highland Zapotec polity on the coastal societies of the lower Rio verde valley and the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec during the Late/Terminal Formative Period (ca. 400 B.C.-A.D. 200), when the highland polity was developing into a state and perhaps an imperial power. More generally, our study involves questions about the relationship between early states and their peripheries. Balkansky discusses our research primarily in a section entitled Complex Coastal Society (pp.469-72). There he argues that interaction with Monte Alban was a major factor driving the development of social complexity among peoples of the Oaxaca coast during the Late/Terminal Formative. It is not our intention here to take issue with his interpretations. Rather, we wish to point out that they are based on a flawed account of our work. |
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