Houses on a Hill: Classic Period Life at El Palmillo, Oaxaca, Mexico

Feinman, Gary M.; Nicholas, Linda M.; Haines, Helen R.

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“…Even so, much more attention has been focused on political economies at the expense of domestic economies, relegating the more common-some may say vital-activities of household production to a secondary status in the archaeological literature. Household research in highland Mesoamerica provides detailed cases of highintensity household production and the central role of intermittent (i.e., part-time) multicrafting to the robust trade networks and market economies of the region (Feinman 1999;Feinman and Nicholas 2000, 2004a, 2007aFeinman et al 2002Feinman et al , 2007Hirth 1998aHirth , b, 2006Hirth , 2009asee also Shimada 2007). These authors suggest that for much of the prehispanic sequence following initial sedentism, intensive household production was stimulated by economic symbiosis and market demand rather than patronage or political command.…”

Section: Domestic Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Multiple excavation seasons and large horizontal exposures allowed them to reconstruct domestic shell-ornament manufacture and pottery production at Ejutla, and stone-tool knapping and xerophytic plant processing at El Palmillo (Balkansky et al 1997;Feinman and Nicholas 1993, 2004a, b, 2005, 2007aFeinman et al 2001Feinman et al , 2002Feinman et al , 2007. Building on ethnoarchaeological studies by Parsons and Parsons (1990), Feinman and Nicholas document the importance of products derived from maguey (Agave spp.…”

Section: Economic Symbiosis and Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%

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Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Carballo

2010

J Archaeol Res

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Recent investigations and reconsideration of households in the Mesoamerican highlands illustrate the central role of domestic spheres of interaction to the broader cultural dynamics of the region over four millennia. Methodological advances in the analysis of past houses permit more sophisticated social reconstructions of the spaces and activities that constituted domestic life for the diverse peoples of the region. Current studies highlight the economic interdependence and diversification of households, their strategic flexibility in affiliation, the integrative ritual practices undertaken within domestic spaces, the material correlates of prestige competition between households, and the manner in which households articulated with a larger social universe.

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Section: Domestic Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Economic Symbiosis and Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%

Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Carballo

2010

J Archaeol Res

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“…One way to avoid nonrepresentative and noncomparable domestic samples is to excavate entire houses (e.g., Feinman et al 2002;Flannery and Marcus 2005). Alternatively, some scholars have excavated a small number of houses in order to target areas within residential structures for further test excavations (e.g., Earle et al 1987;Vaughn 2004).…”

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Household Archaeology in the Andes

Nash

2009

J Archaeol Res

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Data from domestic contexts can be used to address significant anthropological research questions. Archaeological investigations in the Andes (areas once incorporated into the Inka empire, including northwestern Argentina, highland Bolivia, northern Chile, Ecuador, and Peru), like many parts of the world, rely on ethnohistory and ethnography to interpret the archaeological remains of domestic areas and make inferences about households. In this review I describe the ideas about Andean households that archaeologists are using and how domestic remains are being examined to infer social, economic, and political processes. Household archaeology in the Andes requires ethnoarchaeology and theory-building in order to understand the complex social dynamics at the foundation of ancient Andean societies.

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“…Sufficient blade production evidence exists at both areas to suggest that each household produced its own stone tools, however production may have been linked between households (e.g. Feinman et al 2002). Another notable feature of stone tool production at Areas H and F is a larger focus on the production of bipolar tools compared to the eastern plaza.…”

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Lithic Economies and Community Organization at La Laguna, Tlaxcala

Walton

Carballo

2016

Ancient Mesoam

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1 AbstractSite wide, assemblage based lithic analyses help to elucidate community dynamics including variability in domestic economies, technological skill and decision making, exchange networks, and ritual practices. In this study we present the results of an analysis of over 36,000 lithic artifacts from the site of La Laguna, Tlaxcala. We compare Middle/Late Formative period (ca. 600-400 B.C.) and Terminal Formative period (ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 150) deposits to examine transformations associated with urbanization and state formation during this interval. The residents of La Laguna had relatively equal and ample access to obsidian, and most production was organized independently by households. We identify blade production zones and variability in consumption patterns suggestive of different domestic, communal, and ceremonial activities.The introduction of bloodletters, elaborate large bifacial knives, and zoomorphic eccentrics to the Terminal Formative assemblage may indicate the emergence of higher statuses, new social roles, and militaristic symbolism during this period.2 Lithic studies play a prominent role in reconstructions of ancient Mesoamerican domestic and ritual economies. Although analyses commonly employ data recovered from a particular site to evaluate macroregional trade and political economy models, site-based lithic assemblages are also of significant value in the analysis of intra-community dynamics (e.g. Hirth 2006). Analysis of lithic assemblages at the community level permits assessment of variability in household activities; the organization, technology, and sequencing of production; and the use of space within sites and particular structures

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Houses on a Hill: Classic Period Life at El Palmillo, Oaxaca, Mexico

Cited by 27 publications

References 47 publications

Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Household Archaeology in the Andes

Lithic Economies and Community Organization at La Laguna, Tlaxcala

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