Excavation at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology

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Acknowledgments
1. San José Mogote and the Cognitive Archaeology of the Zapotec
	A Note on Absolute Chronology
	Cognitive Archaeology
2. Ritual Life during the Archaic
	Forager Camps and Ad Hoc Ritual
	Ad Hoc Ritual at Gheo-Shih, Oaxaca
	Guilá Naquitz Cave
	The Question of Solar Alignment
	An Early Case of Human Sacrifice
	Implications for the Future
3. Men’s and Women’s Ritual in Early Segmentary Society
	Tierras Largas Phase Society
	Worldwide Variation in Men’s Houses
	Women’s Ritual
	The Tierras Largas Phase Men’s Houses
	Building Orientation and Calendric Ritual
	The Sequence of Men’s Houses at San José Mogote
4. The San José Phase and the Cognitive Archaeology of Early Rank Society
	Changes in Society
	Cosmology and Iconography
	Women’s Ritual
	Men’s Ritual
	A Possible Secular Public Building in Area A
	The Beginnings of Adobe Architecture, Stone Masonry, and the Pyramidal Platform
5. Guadalupe Phase Ritual and Sociopolitical Cycling
	Sociopolitical Alliance Building
	Temple Building
	The Guadalupe Phase Temple of a Rival Chiefly Center
	Conclusions
6. The Reburial of Elite Middle Formative Youths on Mound 1
	Burial 65
	Burial 66
	Burial 67
	Burial 68
	Burial 71
	Overview
7. An Introduction to the Rosario Phase
	The Rank Society Headed by San José Mogote
	Dating Buildings to the Rosario Phase
	The Rosario Phase at Tierras Largas
	Dating Rosario Buildings
8. The Conversion of Mound 1 into a Rosario Phase Acropolis
	Excavation of the Structure 19 Overburden
	The Excavation of Structure 19’s Three Construction Stages
	Features 101–104
	Other Items Found in Zone E
	Feature 97 and Burial 64: Possible Dedicatory Offerings
	Structure 28
9. Architecture and Writing in the Service of the Chief
	Structure 14
	Structure 37
	Monument 3 and the Iconography of Chiefly Power
	Structure 31: A Rosario Phase “Performance Platform”
	Mound 1 at the End of the Rosario Phase
10. Monte Albán Ia: Synoikism and Social Memory
	Visits during the Early Monte Albán I Hiatus
	The Internal Ceramic Chronology of Monte Albán I
	Dating the Disconformity between Stratigraphic Zones B and A2
	Feature 77
	Feature 78
	The Ritual Buildings of Zone A2
	Structure 23
	Structure 24
	Burial 58
	Sherds from the General Fill of Zone A2
	The Activities of Zone A2: A Reconstruction
	“Social Memory”: The Cognitive Aspects of Ritual Visits to Abandoned Sites
11. The Monte Albán Ic Hiatus (with Observations on the Lack of Fit between Survey and Excavation Results)
	The Limitations of Surface Survey
	Surface Sherds at San José Mogote
	Late Monte Albán I and the Problems of Caso, Bernal, and Acosta’s Type G12
	Conclusions
12. The Monte Albán-Tilcajete Conflict and the Origins of the Two-Room Temple
	Structure 1
	Structure 20
	Structure 16
	The Significance of the Tilcajete Temples
13. The Monte Albán II Renaissance at San José Mogote
	The Sequence of Monte Albán II Temples on Structure 14
	Altar 1
	A Possible Post-occupation Offering above the Ruins of Structure 37
	Possible Rituals of Sanctification, Conducted before the Building of Structure 36
	Structure 36
	The Layer of Fill between Structures 36 and 35
	Structure 35
	The Layer of Fill between Structures 35 and 13
	Structure 13
	Temple Renovation and the 52-Year Calendar Round
	An Offering in the Fill between Structure 13 and Floor 1
	Did Floor 1 Belong to a Temple?
	Feature 20
	Other Trash Pits
14. The Remaining Temples on the Monte Albán II Acropolis
	Structure 29
	Tomb 9
	Modifications to Structure 19 Made during Monte Albán II
	Structures 21 and 22
15. Solving the Mystery of don Leandro’s Tunnel
16. The Temples of Mound 3 by Ronald Spores
	Structure 32
	Structure 33
	The Intrusive Pit through the Floor of Structure 33
	Structure 34
	The Strata below Structure 34
17. The Governmental Palace on Mound 8 by Kent V. Flannery and Dudley M. Varner
	Mound 8
	The Stratigraphic Test in Square S2W10
	The Stucco Floor at 2.55 m below Datum
	Feature 72
	Evidence of Monte Albán IIIa Occupation
	Structure 18
	Conclusions
18. The Palatial Residence on Mound 9 by Judith Francis Zeitlin and Robert N. Zeitlin
	The Objectives of Our 1974 Excavations
	Excavation Strategy
	Construction Stages
	Dating the Building with Diagnostic Ceramics
	The Dating of Specific Walls and Floors in Mound 9-east
	The Artifacts
	Faunal Remains
	Conclusions
19. The Ballcourt on Mound 7 by Chris L. Moser
	The East-West Trench
	The North End-field
	The North End-field Staircase
	The N2W1 Stratigraphic Test
	Dating the Ballcourt with Ceramics
	Possible Ballgame-Related Artifacts
	Conclusions
20. The Evolution of Zapotec State Religion
	The Era of Nomadic Foraging and Early Horticulture
	Ritual in the Era of Egalitarian Villages
	The Escalation of Ritual and Social Inequality
	Ritual in an Era of Chiefly Cycling
	Ritual in a Powerful, Militaristic, Three-Tiered Chiefdom
	The Abandonment of San José Mogote and the Founding of Monte Albán
	Ritual in the Era of State Formation
	Government and Religion in an Expansionist, Militaristic State
	Conclusions
Appendix A: The Mound 1/Area A Step Trench
Appendix B: Resumen en Español
References Cited
Index