In this article, we examine the interplay of religion and politics during the later Formative
period of Mesoamerica through a comparison of two regions of southern Mexico: the lower …

In this dissertation I address the timing of and interrelatedness between initial Early
Formative period (2000-1500 BCE) transitions in residential mobility, subsistence, and …

"[T] he volume represents an important contribution to the examination of issues for which
Blanton has furthered scholarship, organized as three sections with cases from …

La Consentida explores Early Formative period transitions in residential mobility,
subsistence, and social organization at the site of La Consentida in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico …

In this paper, we examine a Terminal Formative-period (150 bc–ad 250) bundled offering
from the site of Cerro de la Virgen, located on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. The …

Human responses to catastrophic natural events form an important research theme in
archaeology. Using excavation and radiocarbon data, this article investigates the socio …

The protected status of archaeological sites requires using minimally invasive methods of
material investigation such as coring. In contrast to excavations, the coring method does not …

Debido a la poca atención prestada a la arquitectura de tierra prehispánica en México, en
comparación con la de piedra, se considera oportuno realizar un primer ejercicio de síntesis …

It is often assumed that religion is the backward-looking servant of tradition and the status
quo, utterly opposed to the new. This refrain in so much of recent polemical writing has …

Although this was not the first for which symposium1 I discussed papers whose topics are
remote from any pretended expertise of mine–I once discussed at the AAA (Australian …