The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State : A Study of Zapotec Imperial Expansion

Balkansky's full-coverage survey of the Sola Valley, 65 km southwest of Oaxaca City, documents 120 sites. By combining his data with that of 13 other regions of Oaxaca, he produces a model for Zapotec state expansion that integrates colonization, diplomacy, and military conquest. He also reflects on the origins of the cacicazgo and the indiscriminate application of 'world system' models. The book includes chapters on shell artifacts by L.M. Nicholas and G.M. Feinman, and the carved stones of the Sola region by J. Marcus. This monograph is Vol. 12 of the subseries Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca. Contents List Of Tables List Of Figures List Of Plates Introduction To Volume 12 Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction What This Book Is About A Brief History of Oaxaca Archaeology A Surveyor's Guide to Ancient Oaxaca How Survey Sets the Agenda Evaluating Approaches to Social Evolution Monte Alban and the Evolution of Zapotec Civilization The Emerging Perspective: Regional Variation but Uniform Processes The Organization of This Book Chapter 2. The Regional Archaeology of the Sola Valley Models for the Oaxaca Macroregion Questions Guiding the Sola Valley Survey The Sola Valley Study Region The 1995-1996 Sola Valley Settlement Pattern Project Overview of the Project Results Chapter 3. The Sola Valley in the Formative Period The Ia Phase (Middle Formative) The Ie Phase (Late Formative) Period II (Terminal Formative) The Zapotec Expansion Chapter 4. The Sola Valley in The Classic to Early Postclassic Period Period IlIa (Early Classic) Period I1Ib-IV (Late Classic-Early Postclassic) The Territorial Limits of the Zapotec State Chapter 5. The Sola Valley in The Late Postclassic Period Period V (Late Postclassic) Sola's Historical Kingdoms Chapter 6. Summary and Conclusions What Sola Tells Us about Monte Alban-What Monte Alban Tells Us about Sola Sola Valley Settlement Patterns 500 B.C.- A. D. 1521 Answering Questions about the Sola Valley How the Regional Trajectories Compare How the Macroregion Changes Views about Monte Alban Implications of This Study Conclusions Chapter 7. Carved Stones From The Sola Valley Oaxaca by Joyce Marcus Chapter 8. Shell From Sola De Vega by Linda M. Nicholas and Gary M. Feinman Chapter 9. Resumen En Espanol Appendix A. Site Descriptions And Maps Appendix B. Structure Summaries Appendix C. Site Summaries By Phase Appendix D. Productive Potentials By Phase Bibliography