A Diachronic Perspective on the Prehispanic Ceramic Tradition of the Valley of Oaxaca

2018 ◽  
pp. 302-334
Author(s):  
Gary M. Feinman
Keyword(s):  
Pottery Production ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Monte Alban ◽  
Valley Of Oaxaca ◽  
Ceramic Typology

For the prehispanic Valley of Oaxaca (Mexico), including Monte Albán and other sites, the 1967 volume by Alfonso Caso, Ignacio Bernal, and Jorge Acosta has long served as the key guide and reference for ceramic typology and chronology. Although this classic archaeological tome remains the essential source, nevertheless five decades of fieldwork and analysis has led to important temporal expansions in the pottery record as well as refinements, new observations on pottery production, and the extension of relevant research issues, which all enhance the original schema of Caso and his colleagues. This chapter synthesizes and cites many of these new ceramic developments as a basis to take stock of what we have learned during the intervening years and to establish a foundation to investigate shifts in the region’s ceramic complex over three prehispanic millennia.

scholarly journals Machine Learning for Biometrics

2012 ◽  
pp. 704-723
Author(s):  
Albert Ali Salah
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Robust Identification ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Machine Learning Methods ◽  
Biometric Template ◽  
Fusion Methods ◽  
Areas Of Interest

Biometrics aims at reliable and robust identification of humans from their personal traits, mainly for security and authentication purposes, but also for identifying and tracking the users of smarter applications. Frequently considered modalities are fingerprint, face, iris, palmprint and voice, but there are many other possible biometrics, including gait, ear image, retina, DNA, and even behaviours. This chapter presents a survey of machine learning methods used for biometrics applications, and identifies relevant research issues. The author focuses on three areas of interest: offline methods for biometric template construction and recognition, information fusion methods for integrating multiple biometrics to obtain robust results, and methods for dealing with temporal information. By introducing exemplary and influential machine learning approaches in the context of specific biometrics applications, the author hopes to provide the reader with the means to create novel machine learning solutions to challenging biometrics problems.

Disembedded Capitals Reconsidered

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Santley
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Craft Specialization ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Site Location ◽  
Labor Input ◽  
Monte Alban ◽  
Valley Of Oaxaca

The concept of a disembedded capital is viewed as a specious construct. The logical foundations of disembeddedness of political authority from local commerical hierarchies are viewed as largely untenable, at least in prehispanic Mesoamerica, and the close parallels between Monte Albán and Teotihuacán in terms of general site location, access to prime agricultural land, level of craft specialization required to meet local needs, and local market patterns suggest that both sites had similar roles with respect to local central-place support hierarchies. An alternative evolutionary model is then offered, one which relates developments manifest in the Basin of Mexico and in the Valley of Oaxaca to an economic and political strategy which seeks to minimize labor input and amount of systemic risk.

The Isthmus and the Valley of Oaxaca: Questions about Zapotec Imperialism in Formative Period Mesoamerica

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert N. Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
Formative Period ◽  
Monte Alban ◽  
Valley Of Oaxaca ◽  
Economic Interaction ◽  
Late Formative ◽  
Isthmus Of Tehuantepec ◽  
Outlying Regions

Recent archaeological and epigraphic research suggests the existence of what could be Mesoamerica's first conquest state, centered at Monte Albán, the major Late Formative period Zapotec site in the Valley of Oaxaca. This paper explores the idea of an early Zapotec empire by examining evidence from one of Monte Albán's outlying regions, the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The study is framed in terms of three hypothetical models of political and economic interaction, any one or combination of which could conceivably account for ancient Zapotec relationships with the southern Isthmus and its other hinterland regions.

scholarly journals “The Times They are a Changing” 1 : Undertaking Qualitative Research in Ambiguous, Conflictual, and Changing Contexts

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Kacen ◽  
Julia Chaitin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Changing Society

This article explores qualitative research issues that arise when researchers engage in study within their own ambiguous, unstable, conflictual, and rapidly changing society. We explore the topics of the relationship between the researcher and the context, the difficulty in choosing relevant research quest ions under such conditions, and the relevance of generalizing or transferring findings from such contexts to other sites and populations. We present two research cases from the Israeli context: one that demonstrates an external conflict (between Israelis and Palestinians) and one that demonstrates an internal conflict (between Israelis and Israelis), analyzing them according to these three main issues. Our conclusions focus on the methodological implications that researching one’s ambiguous and conflictual “backyard” have for qualitative researchers.

UK construction research is too fragmented… …a new approach is needed

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lorch
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
The Uk

Framing the question of a research and innovation (R&I) strategy for the UK construction industry requires careful consideration of several key issues: pluralism, vision and recognition of the significance of product (place and its constituent components) as well as process. Much of the groundwork for specific research topics has been undertaken and identified elsewhere (Macmillan, 2002), so this paper does not reinvent the wheel or list all the relevant research issues. Any discussion informing an R&I strategy should provide continuity and not jettison previous work in order to provide continuity. Too much structural change in past funding mechanisms has led to uncertainty for researchers and has adversely affected medium- and long-term projects.

Crime and Drugs: The Issues and Literature

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duane C. McBride ◽  
Clyde B. McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Statistical Association ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Heroin Use ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Causal Priority ◽  
The Relationship

It is the purpose of this paper to examine the major research issues in the study of the relationship between crime and drugs and to examine the relevant research literature as it applies to those issues. Typologies are constructed for both criminal and drug using behavior and it is argued that the relationship between crime and drugs should be examined for each type of crime and each type of drug. A variety of issues regarding the nature of the relationship are discussed. These issues include the statistical association, causal priority, heroin use and increased, sustained and type of criminal activity, the direction of the causal effect and the ecology of crime and drugs. Finally, it is argued that a longitudinal design is necessary before the complexities of the nature of the crime-drug relationship can begin to be unraveled.

scholarly journals A Research Background of Global Value Chains

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sourish Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Or Economics ◽  
Economic Upgrading ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Social Upgrading

Purpose of this background note is to present some relevant research issues about India’s GVC, such as degree of India’s GVC linkages, by sector, by industry (preliminary analysis by GVC measures as well as in-depth econometric analysis), consequences of GVCs for economic prosperity i.e. industrial or economic upgrading (including trade-oriented upgrading and adaptation), the impact of GVCs on social upgrading, such as reflection on labour market dynamics (because social upgrading is not immediately associated with industrial or economics upgrading).

Platform on Platform (PoP) Model for Meta-Networking

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Debashis Saha ◽  
Varadharajan Sridhar
Keyword(s):  
Cellular Networks ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Mobile Cellular ◽  
Future Networks ◽  
Mobile Cellular Networks

In this research essay, the authors envision a Platform-on-Platform (PoP) model to understand the (r)evolutionary nature of future networks, with examples and constructs from the two most pervasive networks, namely the Internet and the mobile cellular networks. First, they articulate how PoP model is conceptualized on the economic principles of n-sided markets and discuss associated network effects for the platforms to attain critical mass for sustainability. Then, the authors attempted to analyze the enablers of the PoP including open systems and standards and their effect on the success of PoP. Next, they apply the principles of PoP to two use cases – Internet of Things and Enterprise Mobility, and indicate the relevant research issues that need to be addressed. The authors concluded with remarks on the importance of security as a platform, which in their opinion has not been given due importance thus far, and the related avenues of research for the reliability and sustainability of future networks.

scholarly journals Ancient palace complex (300–100 BC) discovered in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (15) ◽  
pp. 3805-3814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa M. Redmond ◽  
Charles S. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Formative Period ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Monte Alban ◽  
Valley Of Oaxaca ◽  
Late Formative ◽  
Organizational Features ◽  
State Emergence

Recently completed excavations at the site of El Palenque in Mexico’s Valley of Oaxaca have recovered the well-preserved remains of a palace complex dated by associated radiocarbon samples and ceramics to the Late Formative period or Late Monte Albán I phase (300–100 BC), the period of archaic state emergence in the region. The El Palenque palace exhibits certain architectural and organizational features similar to the royal palaces of much later Mesoamerican states described by Colonial-period sources. The excavation data document a multifunctional palace complex covering a maximum estimated area of 2,790 m2 on the north side of the site’s plaza and consisting of both governmental and residential components. The data indicate that the palace complex was designed and built as a single construction. The palace complex at El Palenque is the oldest multifunctional palace excavated thus far in the Valley of Oaxaca.

A Late Monte Albán I Phase (300–100 B.C.) Palace in the Valley of Oaxaca

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Spencer ◽  
Elsa M. Redmond
Keyword(s):  
Work Groups ◽  
First Century ◽  
Royal Palace ◽  
Monte Alban ◽  
Valley Of Oaxaca ◽  
San Martín

AbstractA masonry and adobe construction called the “Area I Palace” was excavated by the authors at the site of El Palenque (SMT-llb), located near San Martín Tilcajete in the Ocotlán district of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. The Area I Palace covered 850 m2and consisted of nine interconnected structures, one of which was an elaborate residence that measured 16 m by 16 m and had eight rooms arranged around an interior patio. Several additional platforms and two paved courtyards were probably more ceremonial in nature. There is evidence that multiple work groups were involved in the construction of the palace. The associated ceramics and four radiocarbon samples indicate that the palace was built at the beginning of the Late Monte Albán I phase (300–100 B.C.) and abandoned in the first century B.C. It is argued that the Area I Palace is one of earliest known examples of a Zapotec quihuitào or royal palace.

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