Publications

Since 1973, the results of the UMMAA’s Oaxaca Project have been published in a series of monographs. Below is the complete list of the Oaxaca publications, edited by Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus. To browse the Museum’s complete catalog of books on archaeology and anthropology, please visit our website. To visit website please press the blue button at right.

Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca

Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus
General Editors

Volume 1    The Use of Land and Water Resources in the Past and Present Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Anne V.T. Kirkby. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 5. 1973.

Volume 2    Sociopolitical Aspects of Canal Irrigation in the Valley of Oaxaca, by Susan H. Lees. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 6. 1973.

Volume 3    Formative Mesoamerican Exchange Networks with Special Reference to the Valley of Oaxaca, by Jane W. Pires-Ferreira. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 7. 1975.

Volume 4    Fábrica San José and Middle Formative Society in the Valley of Oaxaca, by Robert D. Drennan. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 8. 1976.

Volume 5    Part 1. The Vegetational History of the Oaxaca Valley, by C. Earle Smith, Jr. Part 2. Zapotec Plant Knowledge: Classification, Uses and Communication, by Ellen Messer. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 10. 1978.

Volume 6    Excavations at Santo Domingo Tomaltepec: Evolution of a Formative Community in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Michael E. Whalen. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 12. 1981.

Volume 7    Monte Albán’s Hinterland, Part 1: The Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Central and Southern Parts of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Richard E. Blanton, Stephen Kowalewski, Gary Feinman, and Jill Appel. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 15. 1982.

Volume 8    Chipped Stone Tools in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico: Their Procurement, Production and Use, by William J. Parry. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 20. 1987.

Volume 9    Agricultural Intensification and Prehistoric Health in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Denise C. Hodges. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 22. 1989.

Volume 10  Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca, by Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus, with ceramic analysis by William O. Payne. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 27. 1994.

Volume 11  Women’s Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figurine-Making, Divination, Death and the Ancestors, by Joyce Marcus. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 33. 1998.

Volume 12  The Sola Valley and the Monte Albán State: A Study of Zapotec Imperial Expansion, by Andrew K. Balkansky. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 36. 2002.

Volume 13  Excavations at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology, by Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 40. 2005.

Volume 14  Excavations at Cerro Tilcajete: A Monte Albán II Administrative Center in the Valley of Oaxaca, by Christina Elson. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 42. 2007.

Volume 15  Cerro Danush: Excavations at a Hilltop Community in the Eastern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Ronald K. Faulseit. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 54. 2013.

Volume 16  Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology, by Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 58. 2015.

Volume 17  Cueva Blanca: Social Change in the Archaic of the Valley of Oaxaca, by Kent V. Flannery and Frank Hole. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 60. 2019.

Volume 18  Zapotec Monuments and Political History, by Joyce Marcus. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 61. 2020.

Related Volumes

Flannery, Kent V.
2009 Guilá Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Flannery, Kent V., and Joyce Marcus
2003 The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations. Clinton Corners, New York: Percheron Press

Marcus, Joyce, and Kent V. Flannery
1996     Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley. London: Thames and Hudson.