Umfang:
xii, 552 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten, Tabellen
ISBN:
9781646421503
Inhalt:
Introduction /Larry Steinbrenner --Contact-era Pacific Nicaragua : indigenous groups & their origins /Larry Steinbrenner --Indigenous peoples of Pacific Nicaragua and Nicoya in the sixteenth century : a historical approach /Eugenia Ibarra Rojas --A critical reevaluation of Pacific Nicaragua's late period chronology /Larry Steinbrenner and Geoffrey G. McCafferty --The Managua metropolitan project : a retrospective /Frederick W. Lange --Twenty years of Nicaraguan archaeology : results of the University of Calgary projects /Geoffrey G. McCafferty --The development of social complexity in the Rivas Region, Pacific Nicaragua /Karen Niemel Garrard --Social practices at La Cascabel, a village on Culebra Bay, AD 800-1550 /Ana Cristina Aguilar Vega --Polychrome potting traditions of Pacific Nicaragua, AD 800-1300 /Larry Steinbrenner --Ceramic economy and communities of practice in Granada and Rivas, AD 1-1300 /Carrie L. Dennett --Exploring technological modifications : variation of non-vessel "objects" from El Rayo, Nicaragua /Sacha Wilke --A century in stone : one hundred years of lithic analyses in Nicaragua /Adam K. Benfer --The development of Nicaraguan rock art research /Suzanne M. Baker --Raising the dead : mortuary patterns in Pacific Nicaragua /Geoffrey G. McCafferty, Andrea Waters-Rist, Sharisse McCafferty, Celise Fricker, and Jessica Manion --Osteoarchaeological markers of health and identity at the site of El Rayo, Nicaragua, AD 550-1200 /Andrea Waters-Rist and Geoffrey G. McCafferty --Human bone artifacts : ancestor cults and human sacrifice in a community of Mesoamerican origin in Culebra Bay, Costa Rica /Anayensy Herrera Villalobos and Felipe Solís Del Vecchio --Greater Nicoya through the looking-glass : merging culture history with social theory /Alexander Geurds.
Inhalt:
"Provides an overview of this archaeological subarea encompassing Pacific Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Colonized by diverse peoples of Mesoamerican origin centuries before the arrival of Europeans, Greater Nicoya remains controversial in the twenty-first century as scholars struggle to achieve consensus on questions of geography, chronology, and cultural identity" --
Anmerkung:
Enthält Index, Seite 533-547
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781646421510
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Archaeology of Greater Nicoya Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2021]
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
Schlagwort(e):
Aufsatzsammlung
