Week+3

**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** Question: How is “emerging complexity” identified in the archaeological record, and what are the three main lines of evidence that support emerging complexity during the Initial Formative at the site of Paso de la Amada?
 *  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// .[[file:Flanneryearlyhouse.pdf]] 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= == =Explore these Resources=
 * 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?
 * Visit the Smithsonian's exhibit [|here]
 * Olmec Mask and short audio file [|here]