Week+2

**Valley of Oaxaca: Early Formative: San Jose Mogote---> Monte Alban**
**A. Textbook Reading**  Chapter 4. The Initial Formative (2000 – 1200 BC). General Review of this early period and Mesoamerican adaptations to an agricultural.way of life relying on maize production.

**B. Theory Reading**
 *  Steponaitis, Vincas. ' //Settlement Hierarchies and Political Complexity in Nonmarket Societies: The Formative Period of the Valley of Mexico.'// American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 83, No. 2: 320-363. Jun., 1981.[[file:steponaitisnonmarkets.pdf]]
 *  Kent V. Flannery and Marcus C. Winter. //Chapter 2. Analyzing Household Activities// . In T__he Early Mesoamerican Village__: 34-45. Edited by Kent V. .Flannery, and Jeremy A. Sabloff. Academic Press. 1976. Web. [[file:flannery2.pdf]]
 *  Feinman, Gary and Lisa Nicholas. //High Intensity Household Scale Production in Ancient Mesoamerica. [[file:Feinman_Nicholas_2000_Ej_prod.pdf]]//

=Learning Goals=
 * 1) Discoveries relating to pre-state societies from excavation at San Jose Mogote, valle de Oaxaca
 * 2) Development of Monte Alban - a state? a regional style of material culture? what?
 * 3) Households: work and craft specialization
 * 4) How to relate household production to state society?