num_pages: 338
description: The Zapotecs, Or 'Cloud People', Lived in the southern highlands of central Mesoamerica, iOaxaca,from the late Preclassic period to the end of the Classic period (500 BCE - 900 CE). Their capital was first at Monte Albán and then at Mitla, they dominated the southern highlands, spoke a variation of the Oto-Zapotecan language, and profited from trade and cultural links with the Olmec, Teotihuacan and Maya civilization
language: English
title: The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests, and Peasants
titlecomplete: The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests, and Peasants (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr