La Consentida : settlement, subsistence, and social organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican community /

Exploring Early Formative period transitions in residential mobility, subsistence and social organization at La Consentida in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico. Demonstrating how La Consentida transformed during moments of socioeconomic change in the ancient Americas providing a new way of thinking about the s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hepp, Guy David (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2019]
Subjects:	La Consentida Archaeological Project. Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Oaxaca (State) > Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) > Mexico > Oaxaca (State) Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Oaxaca (State) > Economic conditions. Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Oaxaca (State) > Social life and customs. Indians of Mexico > Agriculture > Mexico > Oaxaca (State) Indians of Mexico > Oaxaca (State) Oaxaca (Mexico : State) > Antiquities.

Table of Contents:

La Consentida as an Early Formative Mesoamerican village
Debating the Early Formative period
Methods and mapping for the La Consentida Archaeological Project
La Consentida's occupational history
Settling down : the shift to sedentism
Diet and changing culinary tastes
Social organization : diverse identities at La Consentida
No village is an island : interregional interaction and exchange
La Consentida : a community in transformation.