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	Zapotec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Zapotec refers to a native people of Mexico, consisting of more than 15 languages, and their historic culture and traditions.
		The Zapotecs developed a calendar and a logophonetic system of writing that used a separate glyph to represent each of the syllables of the language.
		In the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, there were Zapotec and Mixtec artisans living in the city whose role it was to fashion jewellery for the Aztec Tlatoanis, or rulers.
	www.gahanna.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Zapotec (340 words)

	Zapotec - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In art, architecture, hieroglyphics, mathematics, and calendar the Zapotec seem to have had cultural affinities with the Olmec, with the ancient Maya, and later with the Toltec.
		The Zapotec today are mainly of two groups, those of the southern valleys in the mountains of Oaxaca and those of the southern half of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; together they number some 350,000.
		The social fabric of Zapotec life—customs, dress, songs, and literature—though predominantly Spanish, still retains strong elements of the Zapotec heritage, particularly in the present-day state of Juchitán.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Zapotec (374 words)

	Zapotec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The well-known ruins of Mitla have been attributed to them and were claimed to be the tombs of their ancestors.
		The first missionaries among the Zapotecs were Bartolomé de Olmeda, a Mercedarian, and Juan Díaz, a secular priest, who was martyred by the natives in Quechula near Tepeaca for having "overthrown their idols".
		Many people of Zapotec ancestry have emigrated to the United States over several decades, and they maintain their own social organizations in the Los Angeles, California area and Central Valley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zapotec (592 words)

	Hispanic Business Forums - ZAPOTEC WRITING
		The structure of Zapotec writing was a kind of hieroglyphic writing in vertical columns and often with numerals (Marcus 1980:113).
		Zapotec writing was older than the Maya, Mixtec or Aztec systems and may have appeared as early as 600 B.C. in the Valley of Oaxaca (Id.).
		Zapotec glyphs went from a simple early pictorial display concerned with propagandistic "scenes of captives and lists of conquered places," to glyphs concerned with peaceful diplomacy, and finally to a more complex and increasingly informational pictorial system concerned with affirming "royal status," genealogy, and landmarks (Id. at 11).
	www.hispanicbusiness.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2658 (738 words)

	Zapotecan Family
		Zapotec is a large subfamily, (possibly with as many as forty mutually unintelligible variants), in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz.
		Zapotecs from the Isthmus area travel to neighboring states to sell their hand-made gold jewelry, palm baskets, colorful embroidery, totopos (their special kind of tortilla), dried fish and shrimp.
		Zapotec speaking peoples were probably among those who built the famous ruins at Monte Alban, although the site is better known for the fabulous treasures discovered in tombs of Mixtec kings buried there at a later date.
	www.sil.org /mexico/zapoteca/00i-zapoteca.htm (882 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Zapotec
		The first European record of the Zapotec language dates from no earlier than the 16th century, and the ancient form of Zapotec from a thousand years earlier is not documented at all.
		Zapotec very well could be a logophonetic writing system, but likely not as extensively phonetic as epi-Olmec or Maya.
		The Zapotec system very likely was the source of the Mixtec system, which is characterized by a highly pictorial and minimal set of logograms, and by the use of the rebus principle for rough phonetic spelling of names.
	www.ancientscripts.com /zapotec.html (1814 words)

	Seppanen & Daughters Featured Zapotec Weavings from Oaxaca
		The Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca are Native Americans for whom weaving is an outlet for artistic expression, which provides a sense of individual pride.
		Finally, the quality of these hand-crafted textiles is testimony to the Zapotec Indians' traditional culture and family cohesion and serves as a reminder of the level of skill possessed by master craftsmen-a level that has by-and-large been lost to the steady march of "progress" in the United States today.
		Zapotec weavings are made of fine wool and meant to last many lifetimes.
	www.finetextiles.com /oaxaca.html (584 words)

	Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Zapotec Capital
		Founded approximately in 500 B.C., it was built to serve as a capital for the Zapotec tribe who add settled in the three surrounding valleys for a few centuries.
		Several building were designed in such a way that some of the rocks on the pyramids are striked by the sun or the moon at a precise day of the year, in order to mark the soltices, equinoxes or May 8th (for planting).
		This is considered proof that the Zapotecs were aware centuries before Galileo that the earth and planets revolve around the sun, and that the moon revolves around the earth.
	www.mexicodoc.com /oaxaca/cult_ma.html (682 words)

	Hispanic Business Forums - ZAPOTEC RELIGION
		The religion that justified the capture and sacrifice of captives (who also happened to be the leaders of competing polities) justified the payment of tribute and provided new agricultural land to support the ruling elites.
		The Zapotec religion was intertwined with politics, the military, and the economy and justified the rule of elites who could show long genealogies and a connection to the supernatural.
		Zapotec religion also justified creation of large religiously important public buildings that enhanced the prestige of elites, and justified wars to capture neighboring rulers to keep the supernatural and natural forces in balance.
	www.hispanicbusiness.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2667 (417 words)

	Zapotec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Zapotec city is Monte Alban, located in the Valley of Oaxaca in the highlands of Mexico.
		It is argued that the foundation for this great city was provided by the Olmec, but the actual construction is credited to the peoples of Oaxaca, Morelos, and the Valley of Mexico (Sabloff 46).
		There is plenty of evidence that the Zapotec were using the 52 year calendar cycle, because of hieroglyphics, numerals and calendrical inscriptions.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/meso/cultures/zapotec.html (441 words)

	Zapotec
		Michael D. Coe thinks Zapotec is logophonetic (albeit minimally) based on the criteria that it has 80 to 90 non-calendrical signs, in that there are logograms to represent morphemes, and "syllabograms" to represent (usually) consonant-vowel syllables.
		The Zapotec system has great antiquity, whose first example is a stone slab dating from around 500 BC at the site of San José Mogote, the largest settlement before the construction of Monte Albán around the time of this stone slab.
		Together with slightly later example from Monte Albán, the danzantes slabs are depictions of slain and mutilated captives along with their names or the dates of the event inscribed right next to them (in Ancient Oaxaca given names are based on the person's birthday, so it becomes impossible to tell a name from a date).
	www.crystalinks.com /zapotec.html (847 words)

	FAMSI - Research - Introduction to the Catalogue of Zapotec Effigy Vessels
		The Zapotec, whose ancient culture flourished for over a millennium in southwest Mesoamerica, have been the topic of a diversity of studies primarily because their unique history provides clues about the origins of civilization and how urban societies evolve.
		Current research demonstrates a correlation between the entities in the Zapotec calendar day-name list and the complexes of masks and costumes worn by the figures displayed on the urns (Sellen 2002a, 2002b; Urcid 2001, 2004, 2005).
		The catalogue of Zapotec Effigy Vessels is a versatile tool designed to present the most up to date information on the urns in a way that is inter-relational and easy to access.
	www.famsi.org /research/zapotec (2643 words)

	Zapotec Weavings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Zapotec weavers put a part of their spirit into each weaving.
		The Zapotec Indians raise their own sheep but also buy sheep from neighboring Indians in Mitla.
		The horizontal threads are known as the weft or sometimes the woof.
	www.folkart.com /zapotec/howmade.htm (151 words)

	Cultura Zapoteca / Zapotec Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Zapotec spirituality, featuring a table of the Zapotec pantheon, with a special link providing details on the principal Zapotec deity: Gwzio' (Cocijo), The Sudden Energy of Lightning, the powerful and angry face of the sky.
		The parent linguistic group for Zapotec, Mixtec and a series of allied languages.
		The "City in the Sky," a Zapotec capital that held sway over today's Oaxaca for over a millenium.
	zapotec.agron.iastate.edu /cultura.html (661 words)

	Zapotec and southwest table runners
		One of a kind wool premium Zapotec table runners in Southwest and Mexican Indian designs are hand woven in Oaxaca Mexico.
		Zapotec table runners come in unique geometric designs and are naturally dyed.
		Aside from our Zapotec table runners you can also view ou 30" x 60" Zapotec rugs which are designed the same way and style.
	www.elpasorugs.com /table_runners.htm (144 words)

	AllRefer.com - Zapotec (Mesoamerican Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
		The early Zapotec were a sedentary, agricultural, city-dwelling people who worshiped a pantheon of gods headed by the rain god, Cosijo : represented by a fertility symbol combining the earth-jaguar and sky-serpent symbols common in Middle American cultures.
		Coming from the north, the Mixtec replaced the Zapotec at Monte AlbAn and then at Mitla; the Zapotec captured Tehuantepec from the Zoquean and Huavean of the Gulf of Tehuantepec.
		The social fabric of Zapotec life : customs, dress, songs, and literature : though predominantly Spanish, still retains strong elements of the Zapotec heritage, particularly in the present-day state of JuchitAn.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Z/Zapotec.html (474 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Their origins are uncertain, but by c 300 AD a distinctively Zapotec culture can be recognized.
		The Early Formative ancestral Zapotec had lived in scattered villages and at least one center of some importance, San José Mogote.
		The Zapotec abandoned their capital in c 950 and appear to have relocated at other centers, such as Mitla and Lambityeco.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=Zapotec (139 words)

	GeoNative - Zapotec - Mixtec - Chinantec
		Zapotec languages (alternate spelling Sapoteko) are of the Oto-Manguean family.
		The native form for the name Zapotec is Di:i'zh Sah in the variant of San Lucas, and similar forms are used in other languages or dialects.
		Zapotec: from Pamela Munro and Felipe H. López (in collaboration with Rodrigo García and Olivia V. Méndez), "Dicsyonaary X:te:e'n Di:i'zh Sah Sann Luu'c (San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/oaxaca.html (647 words)

	ZRP.html
		Based on locale, the three groups are: the Isthmus Zapotec (who live on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec near the Chiapas border); the Valley Zapotec (who live in a large valley in the center of the State); and the Sierra Zapotec (who live in the mountains to the North of that valley).
		In the Zapotec language it is called Xagui'a (pronounced "Zha Yeah") which means: "at the foot of the rock" and refers to the rocky crag (upper left of this photo of Teotitlán) which overlooks the village.
		It would also be unfair to characterize the Zapotec as having been living in isolation from the modern world carrying on their pre-Hispanic traditions in the face (or shadow) of modernity-- they are a modern (though culturally different) Native American people living in a modern (though rural) community.
	www.nhm.org /research/anthropology/Zapotec/Z.html (934 words)

	Zapotec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Essentially, Zapotec is a framework that tightly couples the CTH and PRONTO codes.
		Zapotec controls the coupling between the two codes.
		In a Zapotec analysis, both CTH and PRONTO are run concurrently.
	www.cs.sandia.gov /web9232/zapotec/description.html (276 words)

	Native Americans - Zapotec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The early Zapotec were a sedentary, agricultural, city-dwelling people who worshiped a pantheon of gods headed by the rain-god, Cosijo—represented by a fertility symbol combining the earth-jaguar and sky-serpent symbols common in Middle American cultures.
		The Zapotec today are mainly of two groups, those of the southern valleys in the mountains of Oaxaca and those of the southern half of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; together they number some 300,000.
		Briefly describes the early civilization of the Zapotecs of western Mexico, thought to have been the first to develop the Mesoamerican calendar.
	www.nativeamericans.com /Zapotec.htm (777 words)

	Navajo Rug Repair Co., Care of Zapotec Rugs.
		This advice is for all Mexican Zapotec rugs from Oaxaca, Mexico (including the rugs of Teotitlan) both antique and contemporary as well for other Mexican rugs and blankets such as Texcoco and Puebla weavings.
		Zapotec rugs and blankets must be properly maintained in order to keep their beauty and value.
		While there are many opinions and theories concerning the care of Zapotec rugs, if you follow some simple, common sense rules, your Zapotec rugs will look great and last a very long time.
	www.navajorugrepair.com /zapoteccare.htm (503 words)

	Gina McAndrews Master's Thesis
		This project is an effort to counter this trend, by focusing on recording the medicinal plant uses of a rural Zapotec village in the mountainous region of Oaxaca, Mexico.
		The location of this project was the Mountain Zapotec village of Yatzachi El Bajo (approximately 17 degrees 3' latitude N and 96 degrees 2' longitude E), in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, located approximately 40 miles northeast of Oaxaca City, the state's capital.
		The local language is Mountain Zapotec, one of 38 dialects of the Zapotec language currently spoken in Oaxaca (Butler, 1980), though Spanish is also spoken by most villagers.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~rjsalvad/gmthesis.html (8323 words)

	ZRP.html
		Resulting similarities between Navajo textiles and Zapotec textiles, then, are not always the result of the Zapotec reproducing Navajo textiles but of commonalities and overlap between what, today, we think of as distinct textile traditions.
		Zapotec weavers began reproducing Navajo textile patterns under these circumstances in the 1980s working directly from images of Navajo textiles supplied to them.
		The Zapotec weaver used that color photo (which had been supplied by a Santa Fe galllery owner) to reproduce the design literally putting it on the loom in plain sight while he worked.
	www.nhm.org /research/anthropology/Zapotec/ZAP&NAV.html (864 words)

	Zapotec
		The Zapotec name was coined by Aztecs, however the real Zapotec name was "Benezaa or Vinizza.
		Archaeologists have traced the Zapotec history back to the first Millennium B.C. Among their most important cities were Monte Alban and later Mitla.
		According to tradition, the Zapotecs cam from the north and settled in the state of Oaxaca.
	interactive.colum.edu /students/nsoto/2/zapotecs.html (101 words)

	Zapotec Weavers in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca - Artisans in Focus - Weaving history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is the the golden age of the Zapotec empire, and the artisans of Teotitlán del Valle are already well known for their weaving.
		Zapotec cloth is sought after throughout the empire and beyond, and traded widely.
		The Zapotec empire sees its decline, but the cloth of the Zapotec weavers continues to be in demand.
	www.rosengren.net /artisansinfocus/weavinghistory.htm (332 words)

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