It’s not the kind of Los Angeles County map people expect to see. Instead of geographic markers, it shows languages. The Pico-Union and Westlake areas light up with red and green dots for households ...

Andres Henestrosa Morales, a prolific poet, essayist and journalist whose lyrical writings helped raise the cultural profile of Mexico’s indigenous people, particularly the Zapotec Indians of southern ...

A newly excavated Zapotec burial has yielded a fresh interpretation of the ancient, grisly Mesoamerican custom of removing thighbones from the dead. Across pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, femurs were ...

The site of Atzompa in southern Mexico was a suburb of the great Zapotec capital city of Monte Albán 1,200 years ago, when a man and a woman were laid to rest there in an elaborately painted tomb ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Brightly-painted Zapotec murals invoking warfare recently unearthed from tombs in southern Mexico may date back nearly 2,000 years, officials said late on Wednesday of the find ...

An archaeologist has revealed a sprawling, lost 15th-century city in southern Mexico at a site that was long thought to have been merely a garrison for soldiers. Guiengola, which was built by the ...

Ta Cándido at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City looking at the Cheguigo Monolith with colleagues. (press image courtesy Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People)) The cinematic journey ...

Thousands of Mexican natives migrate to California every year. Most speak Spanish. But others do not speak Spanish at all. Some speak an indigenous language called Zapotec. Now, San Diego State ...

Vol. 39, No. 3, ARTS, CULTURE, AND POLITICS: Part 2: REPRESENTATIONS OF RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICAN ART (May 2012), pp. 10-26 (17 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Inc. A Zapotec community from ...

This story first appeared on Felicia Lee’s Open Salon blog. Tortillas are sacred in the Zapotec village of San Lucas Quiaviní, Oaxaca. Devotees worship them by ripping them into little pieces and ...

The Copalita-Zimatan-Huatulco watersheds (CZH) lie South of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The CZH is pieced and held together by mangroves and corals in the South, and sinuous hills of pine-oak forests ...