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Encounter with the plumed serpent
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ISBN: 9781607327103 1607327104 9780870818684 0870818686 1607326108 Year: 2007 Volume: *8 Publisher: Boulder University Press of Colorado

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The Mixtec, or the people of Savi ("Nation of the Rain God"), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. This book presents and interprets the sacred histories narrated in the Mixtec codices, the largest surviving collection of pre-Columbian manuscripts in existence. In these screenfold books, ancient painter-historians chronicled the politics of the Mixtec from approximately a.d. 900 to 1521, portraying the royal families, rituals, wars, alliances, and ideology of the times. By analyzing and cross-referencing the codices, which have been fragmented and dispersed in far-flung archives, the authors attempt to reconstruct Mixtec history. Adding useful interpretation and commentary, Jansen and Perez Jimenez synthesize the large body of surviving documents into the first unified narrative of Mixtec sacred history.

Ancient Oaxaca : the Monte Albán State
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ISBN: 0521571146 9780521577878 052157787X 9780521571142 9780511607844 0511607849 Year: 1999 Volume: *2 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book investigates the emergence of social complexity and state formation in a New World region. Around 500 BC, the Valley of Oaxaca, in present-day Mexico, was the site of one of the earliest Native American states, when a new regional capital was established at Monte Alban. Today one of Mexico's most famous and spectacular archaeological sites, Monte Alban signalled an important series of changes in regional political structure in the direction of greater political complexity and integration within a larger domain. The four authors of this introductory text have over the years produced much of the most important primary information we have about developing complex societies in this region. Drawing on the abundance of excavated remains and a survey of regional archaeological settlement patterns, they provide a succinct account of the causes and consequences of political change in the region.


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Le monde de l'Amérique précolombienne
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ISBN: 2859610529 9782859610524 Year: 1979 Publisher: Hong Kong : Princesse,

Prehispanic settlement patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
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ISBN: 0915703181 Year: 1989 Volume: 2 23 Publisher: Ann Arbor : Regents of the University of Michigan, the Museum of Anthropology,

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