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

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