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Describes the "decentralized resource exploitation,
manufacturing and exchange network" associated with
obsidian mines near Teotihuac´an during the classic
period. Detailed, but somewhat conjectural, picture of
the mining, manufacturing, "marketing" system. Maps
somewhat obscure. Emphasizes the importance of such
"nonsubsistence production and exchange...in the
evolution of this first Mesoamerican civilization". His
thesis is roughly that monopoly on obsidian blade
production was an important factor in Teotihuacán's
political dominance of Central Mexico. Later work (Clark,
1986) suggests he overestimates the importance of
obsidian exploitation in the Teotihuacan economy.
- Diehl, Richard H., 1981
- "Tula," in Archaeology, edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff and
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- "The Emergence io Specialized Ceramic Production in
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- Trade, Tribute and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century
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American Origins and West Mexican Transformations,"
American Anthropologist 90(4):832-855.
- Hosler, Dorothy, 1994
- The Sounds and Colors of Power: the Sacred Metallurgical
Technology of Ancient West Mexico.
Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.
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Postclassic
Mesoamerica," Science 273(5283):1819-1824.
Full text available on line.
- MacNeish, Richard S., 1981
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Very good introduction to whole subject. Treats history
of scholarship, the definition and taxonomy of 'writing'
and then gives. Discusses Mesoamerican writing generally
and gives a systematic review of data on Zapotec and Maya
texts -- provenance, date, interpretation. Excellent
"time-line" diagram. Treatment of calendrics is sometimes
a bit confusing. Talks about "year bearers" without
defining. Presence of the factor "5" in the equation on
p. 40 is mysterious.
- Marcus, Joyce and Flannery, Kent V, 1996
- Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in
Mexico's Oaxaca Valley, Thames and Hudson, London, UK.
The best single source for social evolution in the
Valley of Oaxaca. Thourough, scholarly and lavishly
illustrated.
- Millon, René, 1981
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up-to-date. The bibliography is excellent.
Various chapters are recommended at specific points in
the
syllabus.
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techniques by which rare minerals and other valuable
objects were extracted... obsidian, turquoise, cinnabar,
raw materials employed in pottery making." A collection
of articles comprising two issues of "Anthropology".
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