Zapotec Civilization : How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley Book

	Foreword	7
1	The Zapotec and the Valley of Oaxaca	9
2	Ethnogenesis and Social Evolution	23
3	The Late Ice Age and the Strategy of High Mobility	41
4	Coping with Risk at the Local Level	49
5	Agriculture as an Extension of Foraging Strategy	64
6	Learning to Live in Villages	71
7	Creating Prestige in Egalitarian Society	76
8	The Emergence of Rank and the Loss of Autonomy	93
9	Alliance Building and Elite Competition	111
10	Chiefly Warfare and Early Writing	121
11	The Monte Alban Synoikism	139
12	The Unification of the Valley of Oaxaca	155
13	The Emergence of the Zapotec State	172
14	Colonization and Conquest	195
15	The Golden Age of Zapotec Civilization	208
16	Evolution without Stages	236
	Notes to the Text	246
	Further Reading	250
	Acknowledgments and Sources of Illustrations	251
	Index	252