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The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya

Author : Larry Steinbrenner
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646421515
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya written by Larry Steinbrenner and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya is the first edited volume in a quarter century to provide an overview of this fascinating archaeological subarea of Mesoamerica, encompassing Pacific Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Inhabited by diverse peoples of Mesoamerican origin centuries before Spanish colonization, Greater Nicoya remains controversial in the twenty-first century as scholars struggle to achieve consensus on questions of geography, chronology, and cultural identity. Drawing on approaches ranging from ethnohistory to bioarchaeology to scientific and culture-historical archaeology, the book is organized into sections on redefining Greater Nicoya, projects and surveys, material culture, and mortuary practices. Individual chapters explore Indigenous groups and their origins, extensive summaries of the three largest scholarly archaeological projects completed in Pacific Nicaragua in the last quarter century, clear evidence of Mesoamerican connections from Costa Rica’s Bay of Culebra, detailed histories of lithic analysis and rock art studies in Nicaragua, new insights into mortuary and cultural practices based on osteological evidence, and reinterpretations of diagnostic ceramic types as products of related potting communities and the first definitive identification of production centers for these types. Drawing upon new 14C dates, this volume also provides the most substantial revision of the late pre-colonial chronology since the 1960s, a correction that has critical implications for understanding the prehistory of Greater Nicoya.

The Archaeology of Pacific Nicaragua

Author : Frederick W. Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Pacific Nicaragua written by Frederick W. Lange and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Costa Rican Art and Archaeology

Author : Frederick W. Lange
Publisher : Johnson Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Costa Rican Art and Archaeology written by Frederick W. Lange and published by Johnson Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Archaeology of Lower Central America

Author : Frederick W. Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Lower Central America written by Frederick W. Lange and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica

Author : Payson D. Sheets
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292776675
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica written by Payson D. Sheets and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains 17 chapters by 13 authors; 10 are single-authored and the others by various combinations of multiple authors. The work is meticulous ranging from regional to site descriptions, and covering remote sensing applications, chipped stone, ground stone, jewelry, phytoliths, pollen, and macrobotanicals. An excellent account of the archaeology in this region beginning with Paleoindian occupations. Provides a complementary data set to those collected under similar circumstances in El Salvador and Panama"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Archaeology of the Rivas Region, Nicaragua

Author : Paul Healy
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889207844
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of the Rivas Region, Nicaragua written by Paul Healy and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central America before the Spanish Conquest has often been considered by North American archaeologists as a “backwater” of peripheral importance located between the advanced ancient civilizations of South America and Mesoamerica (Mexican–Maya country). Recent archaeological research has revealed that this area played a much more significant role in New World cultural history than was previously thought. Healy’s study examines the archaeological record of one subarea of Southern Central America, the Rivas region of Pacific Nicaragua. The work gives a detailed analysis of excavations and of artifacts recovered at seven significant prehistoric sites. A critical pioneering effort, the monograph documents cultural changes occurring over a 2,000–year time period—changes in technology, material culture, settlement, subsistence, and socio–political organization.

Paths to Central American Prehistory

Author : Frederick W. Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Paths to Central American Prehistory written by Frederick W. Lange and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume brings together contributions by some of the most distinguished pioneers of Central American archaeology as well as those of younger scholars from North America, Europe, and Central America. This ambitious work demonstrates the parallel ongoing needs to pursue theoretical and methodological advances while dedicating equal efforts to filling in the blank spaces in the archaeological map of Central America, where even the most basic surveys and chronological sequences are lacking. The contributions represent a range in specialties that include archaeology, precolumbian art history, new analytical techniques, and exploration of unknown geographical areas. Paths to Central American Prehistory covers El Salvador and Honduras through Panama, from the Paleoindian period to the time of the Spanish invasion. It will have wide appeal to Mesoamerican and Central American archaeologists as well as to general readers with a serious interest in the archaeology of the area.

Political Identity and Archaeology in Northeast Honduras

Author : Thomas W. Cuddy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Identity and Archaeology in Northeast Honduras written by Thomas W. Cuddy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Political Identity and Archaeology in Northeast Honduras, Thomas Cuddy fills a substantial void in the scholarship on the origins of complex societies and the Central American political landscape, drawing on previously unexamined research conducted by anthropologist William Duncan Strong during a 1933 expedition to find the southern reaches of Maya culture. From AD 200 until the Spanish conquests of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Pech chiefdoms of northeast Honduras maintained their autonomy through tactful engagement with the powerful states and empires of Mesoamerica and increasingly large societies like the Greater Nicoya region of Costa Rica. Cuddy, working with Strong's untapped fieldwork, examines symbolic expressions to reconstruct the dynamic contexts that structured power in Central American prehistory and shaped the political identity of northeast Honduras. By being similar to, but distinct from, their powerful neighbors, the polities of northeast Honduras created their own senses of power and identity that served their continued growth while states and empires crumbled around them. Political Identity and Archaeology in Northeast Honduras suggests new avenues for understanding the structure and administration of chiefdoms by revealing the archaeological resources and rich ethnohistoric context of the area and the compelling history of its early scholarly explorations.

Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America

Author : Susan Toby Evans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815308874
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America written by Susan Toby Evans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference is devoted to the pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area, one of the six cradles of early civilization. It features in-depth articles on the major cultural areas of ancient Mexico and Central America; coverage of important sites, including the world-renowned discoveries as well as many lesser-known locations; articles on day-to-day life of ancient peoples in these regions; and several bandw regional and site maps and photographs. Entries are arranged alphabetically and cover introductory archaeological facts (flora, fauna, human growth and development, nonorganic resources), chronologies of various periods (Paleoindian, Archaic, Formative, Classic and Postclassic, and Colonial), cultural features, Maya, regional summaries, research methods and resources, ethnohistorical methods and sources, and scholars and research history. Edited by archaeologists Evans and Webster, both of whom are associated with Pennsylvania State University. c. Book News Inc.

Central American and West Indian Archaeology

Author : Thomas Athol Joyce
Publisher : London, Warner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central American and West Indian Archaeology written by Thomas Athol Joyce and published by London, Warner. This book was released on 1916 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inter-regional Ties in Costa Rican Prehistory

Author : Esther Skirboll
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Inter-regional Ties in Costa Rican Prehistory written by Esther Skirboll and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symposium in honor of Carl Vilhelm Hartman, held in Carnegie Museum's Section of Anthropology.

The Archaeology of Pacific Nicaragua

Author : Frederick W. Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608041117
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Pacific Nicaragua written by Frederick W. Lange and published by . This book was released on with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Archaeology of Mesoamerican Animals

Author : Kitty F. Emery
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1937040151
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Mesoamerican Animals written by Kitty F. Emery and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognition of the role of animals in ancient diet, economy, politics, and ritual is vital to understanding ancient cultures fully, while following the clues available from animal remains in reconstructing environments is vital to understanding the ancient relationship between humans and the world around them. In response to the growing interest in the field of zooarchaeology, this volume presents current research from across the many cultures and regions of Mesoamerica, dealing specifically with the most current issues in zooarchaeological literature. Geographically, the essays collected here index the different aspects of animal use by the indigenous populations of the entire area between the northern borders of Mexico and the southern borders of lower Central America. This includes such diverse cultures as the north Mexican hunter-gatherers, the Olmec, Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Central American Indians. The time frame of the volume extends from the earliest human occupation, the Preclassic, Classic, Postclassic, and Colonial manifestations, to recent times. The book's chapters, written by experts in the field of Mesoamerican zooarchaeology, provide important general background on the domestic and ritual use of animals in early and classic Mesoamerica and Central America, but deal also with special aspects of human-animal relationships such as early domestication and symbolism of animals, and important yet otherwise poorly represented aspects of taphonomy and zooarchaeological methodology. Spanish-language version also available (ISBN 978-1-937040-12-3).

Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America

Author : Mark Miller Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America written by Mark Miller Graham and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America provides reassessments of the paradigms that have guided - sometimes unconsciously and uncritically - interpretations of ancient Central American society, culture, and art. This volume challenges prevailing notions of Mesoamerica and other intellectual constructs of Central American prehistory, drawing on deconstruction, structuralism, diffusionism, and postprocessual archaeology. Nine chapters by distinguished art historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists from the United States, Costa Rica, and Panama illuminate diverse perspectives on common themes in Central American prehistory, such as the definition of center and periphery, the relation between ethnicity and polychrome ceramic traditions, the cultural meanings of color, and the social reality in mortuary art. A common focus among the authors is the relationship between the so-called high cultures, especially the Maya and their supposedly less-developed neighbors in southern Central America. This volume has more than 150 illustrations. The contributors include Mark Miller Graham, Terence Grieder, Rosemary Joyce, Oscar Fonseca Zamora, Peter S. Briggs, Mary W. Helms, Richard Cooke, Whitney Davis, and Frederick W. Lange.

Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity

Author : Hannah V. Mattson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789255988
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity written by Hannah V. Mattson and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and wealth, materializations of power relations and social strategies, or markers of underlying social categories such as those related to gender, class, and ethnic affiliation. Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity seeks to understand these artefacts not as signals of steady, pre-existing cultural units and relations, but as important components in the active and contingent constitution of identities. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on materiality and relationality in archaeological and social theory, this book uses one genre of material culture - items of bodily adornment - to illustrate how humans and objects construct one another. Providing case studies spanning 10 countries, three continents, and more than 9,000 years of human history, the authors demonstrate the myriad and dynamic ways personal ornaments were intertwined with embodied practice and identity performativity, the creation and remaking of social memories, and relational collections of persons, materials, and practices in the past. The authors’ careful analyses of production methods and composition, curation/heirlooming and reworking, decorative attributes and iconography, position within assemblages, and depositional context illuminate the varied material and relational axes along which objects of adornment contained social value and meaning. When paired with the broad temporal and geographic scope collectively represented by these studies, we gain a deeper appreciation for the subtle but vital roles these items played in human lives.

Recent Developments in Isthmian Archaeology

Author : Frederick W. Lange
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Developments in Isthmian Archaeology written by Frederick W. Lange and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 1984 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Prehistory

Author : Peter N. Peregrine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461505259
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Prehistory written by Peter N. Peregrine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures. similar subsistence practices, technology, There are three types of entries in the and forms of sociopolitical organization, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, which are spatially contiguous over a rela the regional subtradition entry, and the tively large area and which endure tempo site entry. Each contains different types of rally for a relatively long period. Minimal information, and each is intended to be areal coverage for a major tradition can used in a different way.