Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Paleoecological Evidence for Early Agriculture and Forest Clearance in Coastal Oaxaca -- 3. Anthropogenic Landscape Change and the Human Ecology of the Lower Río Verde Valley -- 4. Formative Period Burial Practices and Cemeteries -- 5. Place-Making and Power in the Terminal Formative -- 6. Defining Community and Status at Outlying Sites during the Terminal Formative Period -- 7. Coastal/Highland Interaction in Oaxaca, Mexico -- 8. Examining Ceramic Evidence for the Zapotec Imperialism Hypothesis in the Lower Río Verde Region of Oaxaca, Mexico -- 9. From Flesh to Clay -- 10. Coastal Oaxaca and Formative Developments in Mesoamerica -- Contributors -- Index.