Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology

Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology
ISBN-10
0915703866
ISBN-13
9780915703869
Category
Social Science
Pages
437
Language
English
Published
2015-01-01
Publisher
U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Authors
Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery

Description

San José Mogote is a 60-70 ha Formative site in the northern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, which was occupied for a thousand years before the city of Monte Albán was founded. Filling 432 pages and utilizing more than 400 photographs and line drawings, this book describes in detail more than 35 public buildings, including men’s houses, one-room temples, a performance platform, two-room state temples, a ballcourt, and two types of palaces.

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