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Between 1500 and 1150 BCE San José Mogote grew from a few house structures to a village occupying a land area of about 2000 m 2 (five acres), the largest of some 25 villages in the Valley of the Oaxaca and the only community in the area with public buildings (Price and Feinman 2005:320-321).
One of the earliest settlements in the Oaxaca Valley was San José Mogote, located in the northwestern part of the Etla arm.Initially a permanent agricultural village during the Early Formative, it eventually developed social stratification where elite social positions were ascribed, i.e., sociopolitical prominence was achieved at birth, rather than earned.
For some time, San Jose Mogote monument 3 (see below) has been considered among the earliest evidence for writing in Mesoamerica, [1] roughly contemporary with La Venta Monument 13, [4] and only slightly later than the San Andres glyphs (both representing possible Olmec writing), but well before Epi-Olmec (Isthmian) script.
The earliest known monument with Zapotec writing is a "Danzante" stone, officially known as Monument 3, found in San José Mogote, Oaxaca. It has a relief of what appears to be a dead and bloodied captive with two glyphic signs between his legs, probably representing his name.
Notice how the site is aligned slightly west – 8° west – of north. Several Mesoamerican sites have this alignment, including San José Mogote. Complex C, The Great Pyramid. Complex A. One of the three buried Mosaics or Pavements from La Venta, consisting of nearly 500 blocks of serpentine. La Venta was a civic and ceremonial center.
Earliest written evidence for the 260 calendar include the San Andres glyphs (Olmec, 650 BCE, giving the possible date 3 Ajaw [11]) and the San Jose Mogote danzante (Zapotec, 600 - 500 BCE, giving the possible date 1 Earthquake [12]), in both cases assumed to be used as names. However, the earliest evidence of the use of the 260-day cycle comes ...
Guiengola is a Zapotec archeological site located 14 km (8.7 mi) north of Tehuantepec, [2] and 243 km (151 mi) southeast of Oaxaca city on Federal Highway 190. The visible ruins are located between a hill and a river, each carries the name of Guiengola.
Mirrors produced at San José Mogote were distributed to relatively distant places such as Etlatongo and the Olmec city of San Lorenzo. [33] The mirrors from San José Mogote that were excavated at San Lorenzo have been dated to between 1000 and 750 BC. [34] Towards the end of this period, mirror production at San José declined and halted ...