Arthur A. Joyce

Encapsulating two decades of research, <i>Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca</i> is the first major treatment of the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, investigating its social, political, and ecological history. Tracing Formative period developments from the earliest known evidence of human presence to the collapse of Río Viejo (the region's first centralized polity), the volume synthesizes the archaeological and paleoecological evidence from the valley.<