Interregional Interaction and Social Development on the Oaxaca Coast Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • AbstractThis article provides a synthetic examination of the role of external relations in the social, cultural, and political development of the Oaxaca Coast. The article deals primarily with the lower Río Verde valley and the southern Isthmus since these two regions have been the focus of archaeological research on the Oaxaca Coast; other areas of the coast are discussed when data permit. The data from the coast indicate that interregional relations were dominated by elites in pursuit of exotic materials and ideas that served to symbolize and legitimize their special status in society. Evidence for contact with some of the most powerful political centers of pre-Hispanic Mexico are documented, including Monte Albán, Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan, and possibly El Tajín and Tula among others. Despite contact with these powerful centers the Oaxaca Coast appears to have been politically autonomous for most of its pre-Hispanic history.

publication date

  • January 1, 1993

Date in CU Experts

  • November 3, 2013 8:18 AM

Full Author List

  • Joyce AA

author count

  • 1

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0956-5361

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1469-1787

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 67

end page

  • 84

volume

  • 4

issue

  • 1