Late to Terminal Formative period political transformations and their household-level impact at Cerro Jazmín, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca

Rodríguez, Verónica Pérez; Tuñón, Antonio Martínez; León, Ricardo

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2018.01.002

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“…Explorations in the eastern Plaza 1 demonstrate that this space was used very early on in the city's occupation (for other radiocarbon dated contexts on the site's earliest occupations see Pérez Rodríguez et al [2018:Table 1]), when the area was raised and leveled through the construction of stone-walled boxes that were filled to raise the terrain and create a higher and broader area. Large terrace walls, with 3-m tall formal façades to the east, contain these terrain-shaping constructions of walls, fill, and stone block layers.…”

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“…Based on our excavations and associated radiocarbon dates, we know that Cerro Jazmín was established by 300 b.c. on the northwestern edge of the Nochixtlan Valley (Figure 1; for radiocarbon data, see Pérez Rodríguez et al [2017b:Table 1, 2018:Table 1]). Regional settlement data suggest that Cerro Jazmín's founding population came from the villages of the nearby area of Xacañi (Kowalewski et al 2009:31–32).…”

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“…The architectural, stratigraphic, and radiocarbon evidence we present document the development and change of Cerro Jazmín's layout, providing clues to how these changes may have been related to the city's governance. Additional radiocarbon dates (n = 30) and chronological information that allowed us to establish the presently known sequence of occupation at Cerro Jazmín have been published by Pérez and colleagues (Pérez Rodríguez et al 2017b:Table 1, 2018:Table 1).

Figure 1.Map showing the location of Cerro Jazmín in Oaxaca and Mexico.…”

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Political Strategies and the Urban Spaces That Reflect Them in Formative-Period Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca

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Tuñón

2019

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Based on stratigraphic excavation data and associated radiocarbon dates we argue that the pre-Hispanic city of Cerro Jazmín, in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca, underwent a period of political change between the Late Formative (300 b.c.–a.d. 50) and the Terminal Formative periods (a.d. 50–300). This shift is reflected in the city's layout and in the timing of construction and use of two different monumental sectors. During the city's Late Formative occupation, we found evidence of more exclusionary feasting activity taking place in a secluded monumental sector called the Sunken Courtyards near the hilltop. In the Terminal Formative, however, monumental construction expanded in the more accessible Tres Cerritos sector where larger and accessible public areas were the focus of activity. We argue that changes in the city's layout, along with the differing patterns of feasting, suggest that the city's leaders went from a more exclusionary form of government to a more collective political strategy during the Terminal Formative period. Despite of these efforts monumental construction largely stopped and the city's population declined by the start of the Classic period (a.d. 300).

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Figure 1.Map showing the location of Cerro Jazmín in Oaxaca and Mexico.…”

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