Título del libro: Palaces And Power In The Americas: From Peru To The Northwest Coast
Título del capítulo: The residence of power at Paso de la Amada, Mexico
LUIS ALBERTO BARBA PINGARRON;
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Inglés
Año de publicación:
2006
Resumen:
Beginning around 1600 B.C., ancient Mesoamericans started their "Neolithic Revolution." They became increasingly reliant on cultivated plants, settled into permanent villages, began manufacturing pottery and ceramic figurines, and traded over vast areas for a wide range of exotic goods, including obsidian and jade. Archaeologists recognize that there was variation in the exact timing and characteristics of this transition from relatively mobile hunting-fishing-gathering cultures to those of settled villagers. However, by 600 B.C. most of Mesoamerica's peoples were organized into complex social and political units that were the forerunners of all later civilizations (Grove and Joyce 1999; Stark 2000). Unlike their egalitarian ancestors, peoples living in later Mesoamerican urban centers, such as Teotihuacán, Monte Albán, and Tikal, were organized into complex states that controlled regional political hierarchies and possessed rigid social stratification (Blanton et al. 1993). The question of how these early complex societies evolved is a central question in archaeological research today (Arnold 1996; Price and Feinman 1995). Our recent excavations at sites along the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, and Guatemala have provided much new evidence for the emergence of social and political complexity between the advent of the first villages (around 1600 B.C.) and the widespread appearance of large regional centers (by 600 B.C.; Clark 1994; Clark and Blake 1994; Clark and Pye 2000; Lesure 1997). This fieldwork, carried out between 1985 and 1995, was aimed at determining the basic characteristics of Early Formative-period village sites in the Mazatán zone of the Soconusco region (Figure 7.1). Building on earlier archaeological research in the region (Ceja 1985; Green and Lowe 1967; Lowe 1975), we retested some sites and discovered many new well-preserved village sites along the coastal plain, particularly in the region between the Cantileña swamp system to the northwest and the Coatán River to the southeast. One of the largest and most intensively studied sites in this region is Paso de la Amada, an ancient village, the core of which covers over 80 hectares (figer presented) and contains at least 50 visible mounds on the present-day surface. Extensive excavations in 2 of these mounds with w
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9780292709843
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University of Texas Press Nombre de la publicación:
The residence of power at Paso de la Amada, Mexico
Página inicial:
191
Página final:
210
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