Question: The Zapotec left archaeological evidence near what present-day city?
Context: Most of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica such as the Olmec, Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec and Aztec cultures practised some kind of taking of human trophies during warfare.  Captives taken during war would often be taken to their captors' city-states where they would be ritually tortured and sacrificed.  These practices are documented by a rich material of iconographic and archaeological evidence from across Mesoamerica. 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 Albán in the form of buildings, ball courts, magnificent tombs and grave goods including finely worked gold jewelry.  Monte Albán 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 prehistory of the Levant includes the various cultural changes that occurred, as revealed by archaeological evidence, prior to recorded traditions in the area of the Levant.  Archaeological evidence suggests that "Homo sapiens" and other hominid species originated in Africa (see hominid dispersal) and that one of the routes taken to colonize Eurasia was through the Sinai desert and the Levant, which means that this is one of the most important and most occupied locations in the history of earth. The Eaker Site (3MS105) is an archaeological site on Eaker Air Force Base near Blytheville, Arkansas that was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1996.  The site is the largest and most intact Late Mississippian Nodena Phase village site within the Central Mississippi Valley, with archaeological evidence indicating a palisaded village some 50 acre in size, with hundreds of structures.  The site's major period of occupation was 1350–1450 CE, although evidence of occupation dates back to 600 CE.  The site is also hypothesized to have been occupied by the Quapaw prior to a migration further south, after which they made contact with Europeans in the late 17th century. Colha, Belize is a Maya archaeological site located in northern portion of the country, about 52 km.  north of Belize City, near the city of Orange Walk.  The site is one of the earliest in the Maya region and remains important to the archaeological record of the Maya culture well into the Postclassic Period.  According to Palma Buttles, “Archaeological evidence from Colha allows for the interpretation occupation from the Early Preceramic (3400-1900B.C.)  to Middle Postclassic (A.D. 1150-1300) with population peaks occurring in the Late Preclassic (400B.C. - A.D. 100) and again in the Late Classic ( A.D. 600-850)”.  These peaks in population are directly related to the presence of stone tool workshops at the site.  Colha’s proximity to an important source of high quality chert that is found in the Cenozoic limestone of the region and well traveled trade routes was utilized by the inhabitants to develop a niche in the Maya trade market that may have extended to the Greater Antilles.  During the Late Preclassic and Late Classic periods, Colha served as a primary supplier of worked stone tools for the region.  It has been estimated that the 36 workshops at Colha produced nearly 4 million chert and obsidian tools and eccentrics that were dispersed throughout Mesoamerica during the Maya era.  This made it an important player in the trade of essential good throughout the area. The Alepotrypa Cave is an archaeological site in the Mani region of the Peloponnese peninsula.  In addition to being inhabited by early farmers, this site was used for burial and cultic purposes.  Archaeological evidence has revealed that this is one of the largest Neolithic burial sites that has ever been found in Europe.  While settlement in the southern Laconia region usually dates as far back as the Early Bronze Age, archaeological evidence has shown that the Alepotrypa site was inhabited during the Neolithic period.  Two adult human skeletons were found at the site from a burial dating to the 4th century BC, and remains from at least 170 separate persons have been found.  Non-lethal wounds found on skulls from the cave suggest that this period was particularly violent.  Archaeologists are uncertain about the significance of a Mycenaen ossuary, which as been dated to the 2nd millennium BC.  The lead excavator at the site Giorgos Papathanassopoulos has suggested that the ossuary may provide a link between Neolithic burial practices and the Classical era. Mille Lacs Kathio State Park, also known as Kathio Site, is a Minnesota state park on Mille Lacs Lake.  The park preserves habitation sites and mound groups, believed to date between 3000 BC and 1750 AD, that document Sioux Indian culture and Ojibwe-Sioux relationships.  The park contains 19 identified archaeological sites, making it one of the most significant archaeological collections in Minnesota.  The earliest site dates to the Archaic period and shows evidence of copper tool manufacture.  The Sioux lived in this area roughly until the 18th century, when many bands of Sioux were moving southward into the prairies and river areas of southern Minnesota.  At the same time, Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) were moving in from the east.  Ojibwe oral tradition, published by William Whipple Warren, suggests that there was a battle in which they successfully took control of the area from the Sioux; as of 2012 no archaeological evidence has as yet been found to corroborate this battle narrative. The Paisley Caves complex is a system of four caves in an arid, desolate region of south-central Oregon, United States north of the present-day city of Paisley, Oregon.  The caves are located in the Summer Lake basin at 4520 ft elevation and face to the west in a ridge of Miocene and Pliocene era basalts mixed with soft volcanic tuffs and breccias, from which the caves were carved by Pleistocene-era waves from Summer Lake.  One of the caves may contain archaeological evidence of the oldest definitively-dated human presence in North America.  The site was first studied by Luther Cressman in the 1930s. According to archaeological evidence, the Rhine-Weser Germanic or Weser-Rhine Germanic peoples were Germanic tribes whose settlement area in Roman times lay between the River Weser and the Middle Rhine although, later, during the Migration Period, they migrated southwest before reaching the border of the Roman Empire on the Rhine.  This relatively recent term is based on archaeological finds dating to the 1st to 4th century AD, which can be roughly divided into five or six groups and identified as Germanic.  From a comparison of archaeological evidence with ancient Roman writings, the Rhine-Weser Germanii included the Cherusci and Chatti as well as a number of smaller tribes, which are named by Roman sources and located in this region: the Usipetes, Tencteri, Sicambri, Bructeri, Chattuarii, Chamavi and Ampsivarii.  Thus, the Rhine-Weser Germanii represent the group from which the Franks came later.  The archaeological finds for the Rhine-Weser Germanii suggest they were the same tribal grouping as that referred to in the writings of Pliny the Elder and Tacitus as the Istvaeones (Istriones). Monte Albán, likely originally called Danipaguache (Zapotec for sacred mountain of life), is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca (17.043° N, 96.767°W).  The site is located on a low mountainous range rising above the plain in the central section of the Valley of Oaxaca where the latter's northern Etla, eastern Tlacolula, and southern Zimatlán & Ocotlán (or Valle Grande) branches meet.  The present-day state capital Oaxaca City is located approximately 9 km east of Monte Albán.
Answer: Oaxaca City