Archaeological Survey Of The Rivas Region Nicaragua
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Archaeology of the Rivas Region, Nicaragua
Author | : Paul Healy |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0889207844 |
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.
The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya
Author | : Larry Steinbrenner |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1646421515 |
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.
Archaeology and Cultural Mixture
Author | : Philipp W. Stockhammer |
Publisher | : Archaeological Review from Cambridge |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Author | : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology
Author | : Deborah L. Nichols |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 2012-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199996342 |
The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico written by archaeologists from these countries. These are followed by regional syntheses organized by time period, beginning with early hunter-gatherer societies and the first farmers of Mesoamerica and concluding with a discussion of the Spanish Conquest and frontiers and peripheries of Mesoamerica. Topical and comparative articles comprise the remainder of Handbook. They cover important dimensions of prehispanic societies--from ecology, economy, and environment to social and political relations--and discuss significant methodological contributions, such as geo-chemical source studies, as well as new theories and diverse theoretical perspectives. The Handbook concludes with a section on the archaeology of the Spanish conquest and the Colonial and Republican periods to connect the prehispanic, proto-historic, and historic periods. This volume will be a must-read for students and professional archaeologists, as well as other scholars including historians, art historians, geographers, and ethnographers with an interest in Mesoamerica.
Recent Developments in Isthmian Archaeology
Author | : Frederick W. Lange |
Publisher | : BAR International Series |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Digital Imaging of Artefacts: Developments in Methods and Aims
Author | : Kate Kelley |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789690269 |
Proceedings from a workshop held at Wolfson College, Oxford in 2017. In light of rapid technological developments in digital imaging, this volume aims to inform specialist and general readers about some of the ways in which imaging technologies are transforming the study and presentation of archaeological and cultural artefacts.