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Souvenir Sheet Zapotec Archaeology 2007 

Monte Alban

One year issued

Material :  Paper

Condition:  New Unused

 Year : 2007

Facial Value : 6 stamps  2 x $13, 2 x $6.50 1 x $10.50 

At  front appear the image of the ancient zapotec city of Monte Alban, located in Oaxaca State, Besides being one of the earliest cities of Mesoamerica, Monte Albán's importance stems also from its role as the pre-eminent Zapotec socio-political and economic center for close to a thousand years. Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BC, by the Terminal Formative (ca.100 BC-AD 200) Monte Albán had become the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacted with other Mesoamerican regional states such as Teotihuacan to the north (Paddock 1983; Marcus 1983). The city had lost its political pre-eminence by the end of the Late Classic (ca. AD 500-750) and soon thereafter was largely abandoned. Small-scale reoccupation, opportunistic reutilization of earlier structures and tombs, and ritual visitations marked the archaeological history of the site into the Colonial period 

A very nice sheet to add to your collection

ORIGINAL

To send this sheet full protected it will be included in a pair of cardboards, so it weights more