[Aztlan] The Zapotec Transition

[michael ruggeri]

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At the Monte Alban Round Table now taking place in Oaxaca, researcher  
Robert Markens has proposed an adjustment to our understanding of the  
Zapotec chronology. He sees a transition period of one hundred years  
from 850-950 CE to help understand the abandonment of Monte Alban,  
Yagul and Xaaga and other Zapotec cities during this time period. The  
Monte Alban abandonment appears more severe and broad than originally  
thought during this time period with similar effects in other Zapotec  
nuclei. The presence of much cruder ceramics at this time period helps  
confirm the proposal.

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