Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca

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Contents List of Tables List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Raw Materials and Pottery-Making Techniques of Early Formative Oaxaca: An Introduction, by William O. Payne Geologic Origins Beneficiation of Materials Forming Techniques Decoration of Wares Drying Practice Firing of Wares Cooling and Drawing of Ware Functions of Early Formative Pottery Glossary of Ceramic Terms Chapter 3. Studies of Traditional Pottery Making in the Valley of Oaxaca, 1955-1973 San Marcos Coyotepec Ocotlan Atzompa Pottery Making at Atzompa Chapter 4. Site Formation Processes and the Quality of Sherd Collections The Incorporation of Sherds into Households Small Middens Near Houses Sherds in the Dooryards of Household Units Bell-Shaped Pits in Dooryards Community and Barrio Middens Samples from Public Buildings Arroyos and Slopewash How Formative Villages Grew Summary Chapter 5. Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in Ceramics Summary Chapter 6. Types and Sherd Counts: Some Methodological Questions The Order of Data Presentation Honk if You Like Undecorated Body Sherds An Adequate Sample of What? Our Choice of Ceramic Typology Chapter 7. The Espiridion Complex Purron-Espiridion Comparisons The Origins of Pottery Making in Oaxaca Bottle Gourds as Prototypes in Other Regions Pottery Types of the Espiridion Complex Purron Plain Espiridion Thin Tierras Largas Burnished Plain A Possible Figurine of Miniature Mask Chapter 8. The Tierras Largas Phase Tierras Largas Burnished Plain Tierras Largas Unburnished Plain General Category: Early Highland Red-on-Buff Painted Wares Avelina Red-on-Buff Clementina Fine Red-on-Buff Matadamas Red Matadamas Orange Ocos Black Chapter 9. The Transition from Espiridion Complex to Tierras Largas Phase: Midden Stratigraphy The Threshing Floor Sector Bedrock Zone H Zone G2 The G2-G1 Boundary Zone G1 The G1-F Boundary Zone F House 18 Conclusion Chapter 10. A Sample of Tierras Largas Phase Households Household Unit LTL-1, Area B, Tierras Largas Household Unit LTL-3, Area C, Tierras Largas Feature 100 at Tierras Largas Feature 65, Area B, San Jose Mogote Summary Appendix to Chapter 10 Chapter 11. Dating Tierras Largas Phase Public Buildings Structure 3 Structure 5 Structure 6 Chapter 12. The San Jose Phase "Earth" and "Sky" in the Symbolism of the San Jose Phase An Inventory of Free-Standing Motifs The Origins of the "Double-Line-Break" Motif An Inventory of Double-Line-Breaks Pottery Types of the San Jose Phase Fidencio Coarse Leandro Gray Atoyac Yellow-white San Jose Red-on-White Lupita Heavy Plain Hybrid Type: Atoyac Yellow-White Outside, Matadamas Orange Inside San Jose Black-and-White Xochiltepec White Delfina Fine Gray San Jose Specular Red La Mina White Coatepec White-rimmed Black Delia White Other Foreign Pottery Types Paloma Negative Cesto White Madera Brown? Guamuchal Brushed Synchronic Variation in Foreign Types Chapter 13. The Transition from Tierras Largas Phase to San Jose Phase: Midden Stratigraphy Features in Bedrock Zone G Zone F Zone E Selected Features from Zone E Zone D2 Later Stratigraphic Levels Chapter 14. Chronological Variation During the San Jose Phase: Household Sequences in Two Residential Wards Area A: Four Households and a Midden Summary of Area A Eight Houses from Area C, San Jose Mogote Features Related to the Area C Houses Summary of Area C House 14, Area C Chapter 15. Synchronic Variation 1: Differences Between A High-Status Household and a Low-Status Household House 13, San Jose Mogote House 16-17, San Jose Mogote Evidence for High Status Conclusion Chapter 16. Synchronic Variation 2: Differences Between Residential Wards at the Same Village Household Units C4-C1, Area A Houses 16-17, Area B Conclusion Chapter 17. Synchronic Variation 3: Differences Between Villages 30 km Apart Midden Stratigraphy of Operation A at Abasolo House 1 of Abasolo Chapter 18. Dating San Jose Phase Public Buildings Structures 7, Area C Structure 16, Area A Structures 1 and 2, Area A Conclusion Chapter 19. Ceramic Crossties and Early Formative Radiocarbon Dates Problems with Radiocarbon Dating The Espiridion Complex The Tierras Largas Phase The San Jose Phase Ties with the Basin of Mexico Contrasts with Morelos Ties with the Southern Puebla Ties with the Gulf Coast Relations to the South The San Jose/Guadalupe Transition in the Etla Region Conclusion Chapter 20. The Olmec and the Valley of Oaxaca: A Revision How Our Ideas Have Changed A Revised Model for 1994 Suggestions for the Future Chapter 21. Resumen en Espanol, por Sonia Guillen Bibliography