The Development of the Classic-Period Mixtequilla in South-Central Veracruz, Mexico

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Stark ◽  
L. Antonio Curet
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Multivariate Techniques ◽  
Strong Continuity ◽  
Full Coverage ◽  
South Central

AbstractWe examine ceramic and settlement-pattern changes in the Mixtequilla, Veracruz, during the Preclassic and Classic periods with special attention to the periods corresponding to the rise and decline of Teotihuacan. Data for the study derive from full-coverage survey of 40 square kilometers accompanied by systematic surface collections. Collections are analyzed using a suite of multivariate techniques to study changes in pottery that, in turn, provide a basis for the study of shifts in settlement patterns. Local developments and extralocal relationships are discussed with regard to political and economic spheres. Strong continuity through time is indicated for the region, without major disruptions. Teotihuacan influence is manifest more in stylistic domains than in imported items. Although an episode of indirect administration cannot be ruled out, social emulative relationships are more likely than administrative ones. Alternatives to commercial relations are noted.

scholarly journals ARQUEOLOGÍA DEL AGUA Y LAS MONTAÑAS: PAISAJE Y PATRÓN DE ASENTAMIENTO EN LA COSTA ESTE DE LOS TUXTLAS

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Lourdes Budar Budar ◽  
Gibránn Becerra
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Study ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Los Tuxtlas ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Port System

Desde el año 2008 arqueólogos de la Universidad Veracruzana han realizado el estudio sistemático de la costa oriental de Los Tuxtlas, en el sur de Veracruz. Trabajos basados en un recorrido intensivo de superficie han cubierto un área de 250 km2. Gracias a estos estudios, se ha identificado evidencias de ocupación prehispánica, pautas de multiculturalidad y patrones de asentamiento distintivos en la región que se relacionan al desarrollo de un sistema portuario marítimo durante el periodo Clásico (300-1000 dC). Se hace un recuento de los métodos y técnicas utilizadas, así como de los resultados que se tienen hasta el momento. ARCHEOLOGY OF WATER AND MOUNTAINS:LANDSCAPE AND SETTLEMENT PATTERN ON THE EAST COAST OF THE TUXTLAS ABSTRACTSince 2008, archaeologists from the Universidad Veracruzana have carried out a systematic study of the eastern coast of Los Tuxtlas, in southern Veracruz. Investigations based on an archaeological survey have covered an area of 250 sq km. Thanks to these studies, evidence of prehispanic occupation, patterns of multiculturalism, and distinctive settlement patterns has been identified in the region that is related to the development of a maritime port system during the Classic period (300-1000 AD). This paper provides a description of the methods and techniques used in these investigations as well as the results that are available up to the present.Keywords: Los Tuxtlas; Prehispanic Ports; Settlement Pattern.

Megastructures. What is really the point?

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Alvaro Domingues
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Transport Networks ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Rural Roads ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Industrial Estates ◽  
Local Transport

- The article explores megastructures in relation to their impact on local transport networks and nodes. The area examined is Portugal, where the recent construction of giant shopping malls, industrial estates and logistics centres has in turn led to large-scale infrastructures that have been superimposed on a settlement pattern consisting, in many cases, of urban agglomerations serviced by rural roads. The resulting landscape reveals a juxtaposition of completely different elements in terms of both scale and impact, often the outcome of urban zoning projects intruding on fragmented urbanisation. The resulting image is one of scattered settlement patterns. Behind these phenomena one can see the effects of splintering urbanism. The difficulty in coordinating, in time and space, the decisions made and actions taken by a wide variety of individuals and institutions is becoming increasingly more complex.

scholarly journals How Maya Archaeologists Discovered the 99% Through the Study of Settlement Patterns

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Maya Archaeology ◽  
Maya Civilization ◽  
The Many

This article presents an autobiographical perspective on the changing nature of Maya archaeology, focusing on the role of settlement pattern studies in illuminating the lives of commoners as well as on the traditional emphasis on the ruling elite. Advances in understanding the nature of nonelite peoples in ancient Maya society are discussed, as are the many current gaps in scholarly understandings of pre-Columbian Maya civilization, especially with regard to the diversity of ancient “commoners” and the difficulty in analyzing them as a single group.

MAYA HETERARCHY AS INFERRED FROM CLASSIC-PERIOD PLAZA PLANS

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall Joseph Becker
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Terminal Classic ◽  
Lowland Maya

Recognition of architectural patterning among groups of structures at lowland Maya sites dating from the Classic period provides insights into the ways that residences and ritual complexes were organized. Each structured group arrangement, or Plaza Plan (PP), reveals an architectural grammar that provides the database enabling us to predict urban as well as rural settlement patterns. Wide variations in sizes among examples of residential PPs suggests that heterarchy was an important aspect of Classic Maya society. Examination of PP2 at Tikal indicates that a heterarchic pattern of organization existed. Heterarchy may relate to the fragility of the structure of lowland Maya kingship, and this may explain the gradual demise of states during the Terminal Classic and Postclassic periods and their replacement by re-emergent Maya chiefdoms.

Mogollon Settlement Patterns in Pine Lawn Valley, New Mexico

1960 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Bluhm
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Great Kivas

AbstractSettlement patterns are described for each phase of the sedentary agricultural occupation of the area from Pine Lawn phase (200 B.C.-A.D. 500) through Tularosa phase (A.D. 1100-1250), when the area was abandoned. Through time domestic structures changed from rounded to rectangular, from semi-subterranean to surface, and decreased in size. Earlier villages tended to be on higher, more defensible locations while later ones were lower, closer to water and arable land. Villages were generally random in plan, and great kivas, the only ceremonial structures identified in the area, appear to have served more than one village. From the settlement pattern data it is possible to construct a population curve for the area which may be partially explained in terms of botanical and climatological as well as cultural factors. Pine Lawn Valley Mogollon may have had some multi-village social organization which in later times may have united the entire valley. In this respect the Mogollon may have been intermediate between the well-integrated, segmented Anasazi communities in the plateau and the more politically structured Hohokam communities in the desert.

Carrying Capacity and Dynamic Equilibrium in the Prehistoric Southwest

1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezra B. W. Zubrow
Keyword(s):  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Spatial Aggregation ◽  
Equilibrium System ◽  
Prehistoric Southwest ◽  
Population Aggregation

AbstractA model of carrying capacity as a dynamic equilibrium system is generated and made operational in order to test a series of hypotheses relating population and settlement patterns. The development of populations in marginal resource zones is shown to be a function of optimal zone exploitation in the Hay Hollow Valley. MacArthur's deviation amplifying model is presented as an alternative to the model's diminishing resource curves as a possible explanation of the extinction of Hay Hollow population by A.D. 1400. Finally, the effects of population excess disequilibriums as defined by the model are examined in relationship to the settlement pattern variables of population aggregation, spatial aggregation and residential area.

Maya Settlement Pattern in Northeastern Petén, Guatemala

1960 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Bullard
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Small City ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Postclassic Period ◽  
A Minor

AbstractA reconnaissance of Maya ruins in northeastern Petén, Guatemala, reveals a heavy but dispersed type of settlement during the Classic period, with the dispersion conditioned principally by availability of water supply and by suitable terrain for building. The types of archaeological remains described are House Ruins, Minor Ceremonial Centers, and Major Ceremonial Centers. Settlement is seen as having been organized into (1) “clusters” of from five to 12 houses, (2) aggregates of clusters forming township-like zones of from 50 to 100 houses, each of which had a Minor Ceremonial Center as its functional nucleus, and (3) aggregates of zones forming large province-like “districts,” each of which had a Major Ceremonial Center as its functional nucleus. These units are described and discussed. Some consideration is also given to problems of water supply, population, and agriculture. Reference is made to the ruin of Topoxté, a town or small city of the Postclassic period located on a group of islands in Lake Yaxhá.

Regional survey and the development of complex societies in southeastern Shandong, China

Antiquity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (293) ◽  
pp. 745-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne P. Underhill ◽  
Gary M. Feinman ◽  
Linda M. Nicholas ◽  
Gwen Bennett ◽  
Hui Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
North China ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Full Coverage ◽  
Regional Settlement ◽  
Over Time

This article shows that full-coverage regional survey is an effective tool for understanding change over time in regional settlement patterns in north China. Five seasons of survey in the Rizhao area of southeastern Shandong demonstrate a nucleated pattern of settlement around the Longshan site of Liangchengzhen and a clear settlement hierarchy, with distinctly different patterns for later periods.

AD 750–1100 Climate Change and Critical Transitions in Classic Maya Sociopolitical Networks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas J. Kennett ◽  
David A. Hodell
Keyword(s):  
Regional Climate ◽  
Population Expansion ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variability ◽  
Maya Lowlands ◽  
Stone Monuments ◽  
Critical Transitions ◽  
South Central ◽  
Drying Trend ◽  
Effects Of Drought

Multiple palaeoclimatic reconstructions point to a succession of major droughts in the Maya Lowlands between AD 750 and 1100 superimposed on a regional drying trend that itself was marked by considerable spatial and temporal variability. The longest and most severe regional droughts occurred between AD 800 and 900 and again between AD 1000 and 1100. Well-dated historical records carved on stone monuments from forty Classic Period civic-ceremonial centers reflect a dynamic sociopolitical landscape between AD 250 and 800 marked by a complex of antagonistic, diplomatic, lineage-based, and subordinate networks. Warfare between Maya polities increased between AD 600 and 800 within the context of population expansion and long-term environmental degradation exacerbated by increasing drought. Nevertheless, in spite of the clear effects of drought on network collapse during the Classic Period, one lingering question is why polities in the northern lowlands persisted and even flourished between AD 800 and 1000 (Puuc Maya and Chichén Itzá) before they too fragmented during an extended and severe regional drought between AD 1000 and 1100. Here we review available regional climate records during this critical transition and consider the different sociopolitical trajectories in the South/Central versus Northern Maya lowlands.

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