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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).
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.
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.
San Jose Mogote is another site that has elements of cultural strides that the Olmecs could have adopted as the site can be dated back to 1500-500 BCE. San Jose Mogote is a site that dates to the early Zapotecs, [111] a civilization that situated well outside the Olmec heartland.
The earliest known artifact with Zapotec writing is a Danzante ("dancer") 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, possibly his name.
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.
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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 ...