The purpose of this thesis is to understand the impact of urbanization on the domestic lives of people at the site of Río Viejo in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico during the Terminal Formative period (150 BCE–CE 250). This thesis will present the data generated from excavations directed …
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Archaeological research in the Oaxaca Valley has focused on the development of an administrative hierarchy during pre-state Monte Alban. This study is primarily concerned with the factors that contributed to a change from a valley defined by kinship to one ruled by regional elit…
The last three decades have seen the Southern Mexican city of Oaxaca evolve to become an autonomous centre for the creation and promotion of contemporary art on state, national and international levels. The present research's original contribution to knowledge is the analytical …
The level of organisation required to maintain cohesion in the vast societies we live in today is unprecedented in our past. In this thesis I look into why human societies began to shift from the small-scale groups which characterises the vast majority of human past, into the la…