Kent V. Flannery

The Creation of Inequality. How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy Slavery and Empire

James A. Neely

Robert Whallon Jr.

A Computer Program for Monothetic Subdivisive Classification in Archaeology

Studies in Memory of Dennis E. Puleston

Maya Subsistence

Joyce Marcus

A case study in the divergent evolution of Mexico's Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations, this collection has become a basic resource in the literature of Mesoamerican prehistory and has been widely cited by scholars working on divergent evolution in other parts of the world. Originally published by Academic Press in 1983, a new introduction by the editors updates the volume in terms of discoveries made during the subsequent two decades.

Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations

The Cloud People

Michael D. Coe

Early Cultures and Human Ecology in Sout Coastol Guatemala

Frank Hole

Cueva Blanca lies in a volcanic tuff cliff some 4 km northwest of Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of a series of Archaic sites excavated by Kent Flannery and Frank Hole as part of a project on the prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca. The oldest stratigraphic level in Cueva Blanca yielded Late Pleistocene fauna, including some species no longer present in southern Mexico. The second oldest level, Zone E, produced Early Archaic material with calibrated dates as old as 11,000–10,000 BC . Zones D and C provided a rich Late Archaic assemblage whose closest ties are with the Abejas phase of Puebla’s Tehuacán Valley (fourth millennium BC). Spatial analyses undertaken on the Archaic living floors include (1) the drawing of density contours for tools and animal bones; (2) a search for Archaic tool kits using rank-order and cluster analysis; and (3) an attempt to define Binfordian “drop zones” using an approach drawn from computer vision.

Social Change in the Archaic of the Valley of Oaxaca

Cueva Blanca

The Household Archaeology

Excavations at San José Mogote 1

An Early Village Sequence from Khuzistan, Iran

Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain

Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca

San José Mogote is a 60-70 ha Formative site in the northern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, which was occupied for a thousand years before the city of Monte Albán was founded. Filling 432 pages and utilizing more than 400 photographs and line drawings, this book describes in detail more than 35 public buildings, including men’s houses, one-room temples, a performance platform, two-room state temples, a ballcourt, and two types of palaces.

The Cognitive Archaeology

Excavations at San José Mogote 2

Kent V. Flannery

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