Archeologist have dug through ancient trash pits and pain painstakingly swept away tiny particles of dirt one layer at a time for decades to reveal small bits of information that all get compiled together to create a whole picture over time. More is learned everyday, from what people ate and how they prepared their food to their games, worship and trade practices.
The structures around the Main Plaza at the Zapotec city of Monte Albanare are varied, and have been identified as living areas, tombs, and entire communities.
Going with populations and city site it would be very difficult to believe that this could have been a simple place of ceremonial worship... it was just used to much on a regular everyday basis, by too many people.
The Zapotecs were farmers, and made distinctive pottery, they traded with other civilizations. They had a market system, for the distribution of goods into the cities.
They even built ball courts for playing ritual games with rubber balls.
Archeologist know that the Zapotecs developed a calendar and one of the first writing systems in Mesoamerica, earlier even than the Maya or Aztec.
There is a great deal of information buried under the earth... if a person knows how to look for it, and that is what Archeologists do, look for the lost information and try to put the pieces back together.
The Zapotec built the first real Urban center in the Americas
Researchers believe it was due to the natural resourses being used up
Monte Alban was the first real urban center in the Americas
because it was the first religious center in Americas
The Zapotec civilization was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence shows that their culture goes back at least 2,500 years. The Zapotec left archaeological evidence at the ancient city of Monte Alban in the form of buildings, ball courts, magnificent tombs and grave goods including finely worked gold jewelry. Monte Alban was one of the first major cities in Mesoamerica and the center of a Zapotec state that dominated much of the territory that today belongs to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
The Mixtec and Zapotec Indians both developed early forms of hieroglyphic writing at the historic sites of Monte Alban and Mitla.
It's the name of downtown Oaxaca, the capital of the state of Oaxaca. It is where the main plaza, municipal and federal buildings are located as well as many historic edifications such as the cathedral and the ancient Zapotec ruins of Monte Alban.
Alissa Alban's birth name is Alissa Marie Alban.
Alban Atwood's birth name is Alban Gwynne Atwood.
Alban Merdani is 6'.
Alban Ellison was born in 1889.
Alban Francis died in 1715.