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Memoirs
Memoir 46
Domestic Life in Prehispanic Capitals:
A Study of Specialization, Hierarchy, and Ethnicity
edited by Linda R. Manzanilla and Claude Chapdelaine
With major differences in size, urban plans, and population density, the capitals of New World states had large heterogeneous societies, sometimes multiethnic and highly specialized, making these cities amazing backdrops for complex interactions. What do their houses tell us about specialization, ethnicity, and hierarchy? This book explores these issues, reviewing case studies from Mesoamerica and South America. [2009, $38]
Memoir 45
Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Northwestern Valley of Mexico:
The Zumpango Region
by Jeffrey R. Parsons
Data from a systematic regional archaeological survey carried out over an area of ca. 600 km2 in 1973. Six principal occupational cycles are identified. Numerous photographs illustrate details of a landscape that has been radically altered by urban sprawl and commercial agriculture since the time of the fieldwork. [2008, $44]
Memoir 44
Imperial Transformations in Sixteenth-Century Yucay, Peru
transcribed and edited by R. Alan Covey and Donato Amado González
Archaeological and historical introduction to the Yucay Valley, as well as the complete transcription of the first volume of documents in the Betancur Collection. The legal documents published here offer unprecedented data on ethnicity, demography, and the history of conflicting claims and interests of all those who worked and lived in Peru's Yucay Valley. [2008, $45]
Memoir 42
Excavations at Cerro Tilcajete:
A Monte Albán II Administrative Center in the Valley of Oaxaca
by Christina Elson
After defeating the Tilcajete region, Monte Albán created a new administrative center for the Ocatlán region: Cerro Tilcajete. Excavations at the Period II center document the nature of Cerro Tilcajete's ties to Monte Albán, especially the links between the elite families at the capital and those at Cerro Tilcajete. [2007, $35]
Memoir 40
Excavations at San José Mogote 1:
The Household Archaeology
by Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus, with a multidimensional scaling of houses by Robert G. Reynolds
San José Mogote was an early village and chiefly center in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley. Details on every Early and Middle Formative house recovered, including a complete inventory of artifacts, features, plants, animal bones, and craft raw materials by house, with extensive piece-plotting of items on house floors and dooryards. [2005, $45]
Memoir 38
Plants of the Petén Itza' Maya
by Scott Atran, Ximena Lois, and Edilberto Ucan Ek'
The Itza' Maya of the Petén in Guatemala preside over a unique rainforest biosphere in danger of disappearing. Contains a history of the Petén Itza' Maya; explanation of Itza' taxonomy; tables and keys to plant usage; common names in English, Spanish and several indigenous languages; and accompanying CD-ROM. [2004, $50]
Memoir 36
The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State:
A Study of Zapotec Imperial Expansion
by Andrew Balkansky
Full-coverage survey of the Sola Valley, 65 km SW of Oaxaca City. Presents a model for Zapotec state expansion that integrates colonization, diplomacy, and military conquest, and reflects on the origins of the cacicazgo and the indiscriminate application of "world system" models. [2002, $25]
Memoir 34
Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru
by Jeffrey R. Parsons, Charles M. Hastings, and Ramiro Matos M.
Archaeological study of ancient settlement patterns in Peru's rugged and diverse central highlands. Covers methodology, environmental context, ethnographic analogies for agriculture and pastoralism, and ethnohistory, and considers long-term trends in population, land use, settlement configuration, public architecture, and polity and economy at the local and regional levels. [2000, $45]
Memoir 33
Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca:
Figurine-making, Divination, Death and the Ancestors
by Joyce Marcus
Covers divination, figurine-making, and women's ritual treatment of ancestors in the Valley of Oaxaca. Women's ritual was distinguished from men's through excavation strategy: houses, dooryards, activity areas, features, middens and public buildings were excavated and studied as separate units, and context was used to link artifacts with women's domains. [1998, $25]
Memoir 28
Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America
by Elsa M. Redmond
Documents principal differences between tribal and chiefly warfare, outlines kinds of evidence archaeologists can expect to recover from warfare, and formulates testable hypotheses of the role of warfare in social and political evolution. [1994, 25]
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27. Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca, by Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus, 1994. $45.
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23a. Maps for Memoir 23 (book not available), 1989. 8 maps: Valley of Oaxaca settlements, Rosario Phase through Monte Albán V. $15.
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22. Agricultural Intensification and Prehistoric Health in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Denise C. Hodges, 1989. $16.
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21. Conflicts over Coca Fields in Sixteen-Century Perú, by María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco, 1988. $19.50.
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20. Chipped Stone Tools in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico: Their Procurement, Production and Use, by William J. Parry, 1987. $18.
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18. Aztec City-States, by Mary G. Hodge, 1984. $15.
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17. Irrigation and the Cuicatec Ecosystem: A Study of Agriculture and Civilization in North Central Oaxaca, by Joseph W. Hopkins III, 1984. $15.
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16. A Fuego y Sangre: Early Zapotec Imperialism in the Cuicatlán Cañada, Oaxaca, by Elsa Redmond, 1983. $15.
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15. Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I: The Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Central and Southern Parts of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Richard E. Blanton et al., 1982. $15.
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14. Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: The Chalco-Xochimilco Region, by Jeffrey R. Parsons et al., 1982. $8.
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12. Excavations at Santo Domingo Tomaltepec: Evolution of a Formative Community in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Michael E. Whalen, 1981. $6.
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8. Fabrica San Jose and Middle Formative Society in the Valley of Oaxaca, by Robert D. Drennan, 1976. $15.
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3. Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Texcoco Region, Mexico, by Jeffrey R. Parsons, 1971. $4.
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Anthropological Papers
Anthropological Papers, 96
The Last Pescadores of Chimalhuacán, Mexico:
An Archaeological Ethnography
by Jeffrey R. Parsons
Based on study of the nearly vanished aquatic economy of Chimalhuacán in the Valley of Mexico, describes the surviving vestiges of aquatic insect collection and fishing, and considers their developmental and archaeological implications within a broad context of historical, ethnographic, biological, ecological, and archaeological information from Mexico, North and South America, the Near East, and Africa. [2006, $28]
Anthropological Papers, 92
The Last Saltmakers of Nexquipayac, Mexico:
An Archaeological Ethnography
by Jeffrey R. Parsons
In the 1980s, a few traditional saltmakers were still manufacturing several kinds of salt in the eastern Valley of Mexico. This in-depth study of the methodology of this dying craft includes a comparative study of pre-industrial saltmaking around the world, and considers the implications of this knowledge for future archaeological research. [2001, $26]
Anthropological Papers, 89
Caciques and Their People:
A Volume in Honor of Ronald Spores
edited by Joyce Marcus and Judith Zeitlin
Essays by Mesoamerican scholars on topics ranging from Zapotec archaeology to Cuicatec irrigation, Mixtec codices to Aztec ethnohistory. Authors use direct historical approach, the comparative method, or develop models that contribute to ethnological and archaeological theory. [1994, $26]
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84. Debating Oaxaca Archaeology, edited by Joyce Marcus, 1990. $18.
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82. Maguey Utilization in Highland Central Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography, by Jeffrey R. Parsons and Mary H. Parsons, 1990. $22.
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60. Las yerbas de la gente: A Study of Hispano-American Medicinal Plants, by Karen Cowan Ford, 1975. $15.
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45. Miscellaneous Studies in Mexican Prehistory, by Michael W. Spence, Jeffrey R. Parsons, and Mary Hrones Parsons, 1972. $2.
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13. The Puerto Rican Population: A Study in Human Biology, by Frederick P. Thieme, 1959. $1.
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9. Spanish-Guarani Relations in Early Colonial Paraguay, by Elman R. Service, 1954. $15.
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Technical Reports
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20. Late Intermediate Occupation at Cerro Azul, Perú, by Joyce Marcus, 1987. $8.
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16. Regional Archaeology in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia/Arqueología Regional en el Valle de la Plata, Colombia, edited by Robert D. Drennan, 1985. $8.
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14. Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Chalco, Xochimilco, Ixtapalapa, Texcoco and Zumpango Regions, Mexico, by Jeffrey R. Parsons, Keith W. Kintigh, and Susan A. Gregg, 1983. $4.
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11. Prehistoric Social, Political, and Economic Development in the Area of the Tehuacan Valley: Some Results of the Palo Blanco Project, edited by Robert D. Drennan, 1979. $3.
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9. Dietary Reconstruction at Chalcatzingo: A Formative Period Site in Morelos, Mexico, by Margaret J. Schoeninger, 1979. $15.
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7. Excavations at Quachilco: A Report on the 1977 Season of the Palo Blanco Project in the Tehuacan Valley, by Robert D. Drennan, 1978. $2.
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Occasional Contributions
Occasional Contribution 15
Araucanian Culture in Transition
by Mischa Titiev [1951, $2]
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