Economic growth in Mesoamerica: Obsidian consumption in the coastal lowlands

Stark, Barbara; Boxt, Matthew A.; Gasco, Janine; Lauck, Rebecca B. González; Balkin, Jessica D. Hedgepeth; Joyce, Arthur A.; King, Stacie M.; Knight, Charles; Kruger, Robert P.; Levine, Marc N.; Lesure, Richard G.; Mendelsohn, Rebecca; Castillo, Marx Navarro; Neff, Héctor; Ohnersorgen, Michael A.; Pool, Christopher A.; Raab, L. Mark; Rosenswig, Robert M.; Venter, Marcie L.; Voorhies, Barbara; Workinger, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2016.01.008

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“…The external demands would likely have had to do with the textile sector (cf. Stark et al 2016). Nonetheless, it seems probable that most market demand was endogenous, coming from the Mixteca Alta and its nearby trading partners.…”

Section: Terracing and Land Tenurementioning

confidence: 99%

Regional Archaeology and Local Interests in Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca

Kowalewski¹,

Brannan²,

Vilchis³

et al. 2017

Latin Am. antiq.

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Section: Terracing and Land Tenurementioning

confidence: 99%

Regional Archaeology and Local Interests in Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca

Kowalewski¹,

Brannan²,

Vilchis³

et al. 2017

Latin Am. antiq.

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“…For example, Barbara Stark et al. () point out that little in the way of comparative economic indices, such as the gross domestic product (GDP), are available for the ancient past. To help fill this void, archaeologists from twenty‐one different institutions pooled together obsidian data from sixty‐eight different archaeological assemblages to evaluate economic growth in Mesoamerica from a long‐term, regional perspective.…”

Section: Collaborations In Archaeological Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropological Archaeology in 2016: Cooperation and Collaborations in Archaeological Research and Practice

Halperin

2017

American Anthropologist

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Ideas of collaboration and cooperation are often implicit, taken-for-granted elements in archaeological models and theorizing. Overshadowed by a growing archaeological preoccupation with warfare, violence, conflict, and crisis, cooperative acts and collaborative dispositions appear to lack the same emotional resonance and changestimulating properties that attract archaeological attention. Nonetheless, many archaeological publications in 2016 directly take on notions of collaboration in thinking about the past and our roles as archaeologists and as citizens of the future. This review underscores the significance of thinking about collaboration and cooperation as ambiguous, ambivalent, multiscalar, and dynamic. At issue is not just the creation of community but also of getting things done and, of course, celebrating, revising, or reworking the intended or unintended consequences of those actions over the generations. [archaeology, collaboration, cooperation] RESUMEN Las ideas de colaboración y cooperación son a menudo elementos implícitos, que se dan por sentados en los modelos y teorización arqueológicos. Opacados por una creciente preocupación arqueológica por la guerra, la violencia, el conflicto, y la crisis, a los actos cooperativos y disposiciones colaborativas parecen faltarles la misma resonancia emocional y propiedades estimulantes de cambio que atraen la atención arqueológica. No obstante, muchas publicaciones arqueológicas en 2016 empiezan directamente a tratar las nociones de colaboración, reflexionando acerca del pasado y nuestros roles como arqueólogos y como ciudadanos del futuro. Esta revisión enfatiza la importancia de considerar la colaboración y cooperación como ambiguas, ambivalentes, de múltiples escalas, y dinámicas. En cuestión no sólo está la creación de comunidad, sino también el lograr que se hagan las cosas, y por supuesto, celebrar, revisar, o rehacer las consecuencias planeadas o no planeadas de esas acciones sobre generaciones. [arqueología, colaboración, cooperación]

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“…), Horizon II shifts to feature white-slipped pottery with double-line-break and "grater" motif incision. These are the most pervasive and numerous design elements to ever unite Mesoamerica stylistically, as new sites possessing this pottery fill in the gaps among the "archipelago of complexity" observed during Horizon I (Rosenswig 2016). While the specific application of these motifs on white-slipped bowls did not originate in the Gulf lowlands, the double-line-break design may have derived from the earlier Olmec-inspired cleft motif.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This horizon marks the rise and spread of the Olmec artistic style. It has roots in the southern Gulf lowlands but was elaborated through time in other regions forming "islands" of emerging sociocultural complexity based on commonly held cultural ideals (de la Fuente 2000;Flannery and Marcus 1994;Love 2002;Niederberger 1976Niederberger , 2000Rosenswig 2010Rosenswig , 2016.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pottery Trade and the Formation of Early and Middle Formative Style Horizons as Seen From Central Mexico

Stoner

Nichols

2019

Ancient Mesoam

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We explore the relationship between long-distance pottery trade and the formation of Early and Middle Formative style horizons in Mesoamerica. A sample of 1,154 ceramics mostly from Early and Middle Formative contexts in the central Mexican highlands was irradiated at the University of Missouri Research Reactor with a subsample (n = 313) for petrographic analysis. We conclude that: (1) most sites and regions display more than one process for making pottery; (2) there is a small amount of intraregional exchange among central Mexican sites, with the southeastern Basin of Mexico making the largest portion of pottery intended for trade within the region; and (3) interregional imports found at several sites likely come from the metamorphic region of southwestern Puebla with smaller numbers imported from the southern Gulf Coast, Morelos, and possibly Oaxaca. The trend over time from Early Formative to the end of the Middle Formative is one of decreasing intensity of long-distance interaction and decreasing geographic range of trade. These two trends contribute to the regional divergence of ceramic styles that peaks by the Late Formative in Mesoamerica.

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Economic growth in Mesoamerica: Obsidian consumption in the coastal lowlands

Cited by 28 publications

References 56 publications

Regional Archaeology and Local Interests in Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca

Regional Archaeology and Local Interests in Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca

Anthropological Archaeology in 2016: Cooperation and Collaborations in Archaeological Research and Practice

Pottery Trade and the Formation of Early and Middle Formative Style Horizons as Seen From Central Mexico

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