An Archaic Mexican Shellmound And Its Entombed Floors

Author : Barbara Voorhies
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781950446001

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An Archaic Mexican Shellmound and Its Entombed Floors by Barbara Voorhies Pdf

Tlacuachero is the site of an Archaic-period shellmound located in the wetlands of the outer coast of southwest Mexico. This book presents investigations of several floors that are within the site's shell deposits that formed over a 600-800 year interval during the Archaic period (ca. 8000-2000 BCE), a crucial timespan in Mesoamerican prehistory when people were transitioning from full-blown dependency on wild resources to the use of domesticated crops. The floors are now deeply buried in an limited area below the summit of the shellmound. The authors explore what activities were carried out on their surfaces, discussing the floors' patterns of cultural features, sediment color, density and types of embedded microrefuse and phytoliths, as well as chemical signatures of organic remains. The studies conducted at Tlacuachero are especially significant in light of the fact that data-rich lowland sites from the Archaic period are extraordinarily rare; the wealth of information gleaned from the floors of the Tlacuachero shellmound can now be widely appreciated.

Author : Jon C. Lohse,Aleksander Borejsza,Arthur A. Joyce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429620096

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Preceramic Mesoamerica by Jon C. Lohse,Aleksander Borejsza,Arthur A. Joyce Pdf

Preceramic Mesoamerica delivers cutting-edge research on the Mesoamerican Paleoindian and Archaic periods. The chapters address a series of fundamental questions in American archaeology including the peopling of the Americas, human adaptations to late glacial landscapes, the Neolithic transition, and the origins of sedentism and early village life. This volume presents innovative and previously unpublished research on the Paleoindian and Archaic periods and evaluates current models in light of new findings. Examples include breakthroughs in dating Mesoamerica’s earliest sites and their implications for models of hemispheric colonization; the transition to postglacial patterns of settlement and subsistence; divergent pathways to initial sedentism; the possibility of Archaic-period monumentality; changing patterns of interregional exchange and interaction; and debates surrounding the origins of agriculture, ceramics, and full-time village life. The volume provides a new perspective on the Mesoamerican Preceramic for students and scholars in archaeology, anthropology, and history. Readers will come to understand how the Preceramic contributed to the emergence of the cultural traditions that anthropologists recognize as Mesoamerica.

Author : Scott R. Hutson,Traci Ardren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351029568

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The Maya World by Scott R. Hutson,Traci Ardren Pdf

The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system, towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies, complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya, including archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists.

Author : Barbara L. Stark
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950446193

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The Archaeology of Political Organization by Barbara L. Stark Pdf

In this volume, Barbara Stark examines settlement in the coastal plain of lowland Mesoamerica, which was richly endowed with fertile soil and valued tropical resources such as jaguars, cacao, avian species with bright plumage, and cotton. The book provides basic archaeological data about regional settlement from three decades of survey research in south-central Veracruz in the western lower Papaloapan basin, a region with low density urbanism. The data reveals political and social change, with consolidation of wealth by elite families during the Late Classic period. The political analysis considers archaeological evidence related to several organizational principles: collective versus autocratic, corporate versus exclusionary/network, and segmentary (unspecialized versus specialized). Many variables related to these principles used by other scholars are either suited to historically documented states, not archaeological ones, or ambiguous. Many published studies either focus on a particular city or use documents or other evidence drawn from the top of the settlement hierarchy, characterizing the whole society politically from a biased sample. This political analysis is regional in scope and attentive to variation in the settlement hierarchy, providing a guidepost to analysis of political principles with archaeological data.

Author : Ann S. Cordell,Jeffrey M. Mitchem
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683403388

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Methods, Mounds, and Missions by Ann S. Cordell,Jeffrey M. Mitchem Pdf

Methods, Mounds, and Missions offers innovative ways of looking at existing data, as well as compelling new information, about Florida’s past. Diverse in scale, topic, time, and region, the volume’s contributions span the late Archaic through historic periods and cover much of the state’s panhandle and peninsula, with forays into the larger Southeast and circum-Caribbean area. Subjects explored in this volume include coastal ring middens, chiefly power and social interaction in mound-building societies, pottery design and production, faunal evidence of mollusk harvesting, missions and missionaries, European iron celts or chisels, Hernando de Soto’s sixteenth-century expedition, and an early nineteenth-century Seminole settlement. The essays incorporate previously underexplored markers of culture histories such as clay sources and non-chert lithic tools and address complex issues such as the entanglement of utilitarian artifacts with sociocultural and ritual realms. Experts in their topical specializations, this volume’s contributors build on the research methods and interpretive approaches of influential anthropologist Jerald Milanich. They update current archaeological interpretations of Florida history, developing and demonstrating the use of new and improved tools to answer broader and larger questions. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : Brian S. Bauer,Javier Fonseca Santa Cruz,Miriam Araoz Silva
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770623

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Vilcabamba and the Archaeology of Inca Resistance by Brian S. Bauer,Javier Fonseca Santa Cruz,Miriam Araoz Silva Pdf

The sites of Vitcos and Espiritu Pampa are two of the most important Inca cities within the remote Vilcabamba region of Peru. The province has gained notoriety among historians, archaeologists, and other students of the Inca, since it was from here that the last independent Incas waged a nearly forty-year-long war (AD 1536-1572) against Spanish control of the Andes. Building on three years of excavation and two years of archival work, the authors discuss the events that took place in this area, speaking to the complex relationships that existed between the Europeans and Andeans during the decades that Vilcabamba was the final stronghold of the Inca empire. This has long been a topic of interest for the public; the results of the first large-scale scientific research conducted in the region will be illuminating for scholars as well as for general readers who are enthusiasts of this period of history and archaeology.

Author : Claire L. Lyons,John M. D. Pohl
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770357

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Altera Roma by Claire L. Lyons,John M. D. Pohl Pdf

Altera Roma explores the confrontation of two cultures, European and Amerindian, and two empires, Spanish and Aztec. In an age of exploration and conquest, Spanish soldiers, missionaries, and merchants brought an array of cultural preconceptions. Their encounter with Aztec civilization coincided with Europe's rediscovery of classical antiquity, and Tenochtitlan came to be regarded a "second Rome," or altera Roma. Iberia's past as the Roman province of Hispania served to both guide and critique the Spanish overseas mission. The dialogue that emerged between the Old World and the New World shaped a dual heritage into the unique culture of Nueva Espana. In this volume, ten eminent historians and archaeologists examine the analogies between empires widely separated in time and place and consider how monumental art and architecture created "theater states," a strategy that links ancient Rome, Hapsburg Spain, preconquest Mexico, and other imperial regimes.

Author : Milo Rossi
Publisher : Wellfleet
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781577153412

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The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful by Milo Rossi Pdf

The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful features over 500 illustrated explanations of some of the most intriguing and entertaining facts from life, culture, and a range of other fascinating topics.

Author : Maura K. Heyn,Ann Irvine Steinsapir
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770593

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Icon, Cult, and Context by Maura K. Heyn,Ann Irvine Steinsapir Pdf

This festschrift honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world. The iconography of gods and goddesses, the analysis of sacred imagery in the context of ancient cult practices, and the design and decoration of sacred spaces are the main themes of the book. Authors examine such subjects as painting from Dura-Europos, Hellenistic sculpture at Saqqara in Egypt, Roman cameo glass, Pompeian fresco, and aspects of Venus in portrait sculpture. The essays on Dura-Europos are especially valuable in light of the present turmoil in the region. Professor Downey's influence shines through in these discussions, which echo her mentorship of several generations of art history and archaeology students and recognize her scholarly achievements. The broad temporal and geographic parameters of the volume are expansive, and the juxtaposition of images and analyses leads to surprising new conclusions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UIUC:30112117899747

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Journal of Anthropological Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard G Lesure
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950446209

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Paso de la Amada by Richard G Lesure Pdf

Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexico, was among the earliest sedentary, ceramic-using villages of Mesoamerica. With an occupation that extended across 140 ha in 1600 BC, it was also one of the largest communities of its era. First settled around 1900 BC, the site was abandoned 600 years later during what appears to have been a period of local political turmoil. The decline of Paso de la Amada corresponded with a rupture in local traditions of material culture and local adoption of the Early Olmec style. Stylistically, the material culture of Paso de la Amada corresponds predominantly to the pre-Olmec Mokaya tradition. Excavations at the site have revealed significant earthen constructions from as early as 1700 BC. Those include the earliest known Mesoamerican ball court and traces of a series of high-status residences. This monograph reports on large-scale excavations in Mounds 1, 12, and 32, as well as soundings in other locations. The volume covers all aspects of excavations and artifacts and includes three lengthy interpretive chapters dealing with the main research questions, which concern subsistence, social inequality, and the organizational history of the site.

Author : Peter N. Peregrine,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461505259

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Encyclopedia of Prehistory by Peter N. Peregrine,Melvin Ember Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Blake
Publisher : Washington State University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173006178860

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Pacific Latin America in Prehistory by Michael Blake Pdf

A remarkable range of ancient societies and economies flourished in the environmentally diverse coastal regions of Pacific Latin America. The essays report on archaeological research in Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile.

Author : David K. Thulman,Ervan G. Garrison
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400806

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New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians by David K. Thulman,Ervan G. Garrison Pdf

Presenting the most current research and thinking on prehistoric archaeology in the Southeast, this volume reexamines some of Florida’s most important Paleoindian sites and discusses emerging technologies and methods that are necessary knowledge for archaeologists working in the region today. Using new analytical methods, contributors explore fresh perspectives on sites including Old Vero, Guest Mammoth, Page-Ladson, and Ray Hole Spring. They discuss the role of hydrology—rivers, springs, and coastal plain drainages—in the history of Florida’s earliest inhabitants. They address both the research challenges and the unique preservation capacity of the state’s many underwater sites, suggesting solutions for analyzing corroded lithic artifacts and submerged midden deposits. Looking towards future research, archaeologists discuss strategies for finding additional pre-Clovis and Clovis-era sites offshore on the southeastern continental shelf. The search is important, these essays show, because Florida’s prehistoric sites hold critical data for the debate over the nature and timing of the first human colonization of the Western Hemisphere.

Author : Sanz, Nuria,Arriaza, Bernardo T.,Standen, Vivien G.
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Embalming
ISBN : 9789231000201

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The Chinchorro culture by Sanz, Nuria,Arriaza, Bernardo T.,Standen, Vivien G. Pdf