Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 552 pages)
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color illustrations, color maps
ISBN:
9781646421510
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1646421515
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:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction /
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Redefining greater Nicoya. - Contact-era Pacific Nicaragua : indigenous groups & their origins /
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Indigenous peoples of Pacific Nicaragua and Nicoya in the sixteenth century : a historical approach /
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A critical reevaluation of Pacific Nicaragua's late period chronology /
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Projects and surveys. - The Managua metropolitan project : a retrospective /
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Twenty years of Nicaraguan archaeology : results of the University of Calgary projects /
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The development of social complexity in the Rivas Region, Pacific Nicaragua /
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Social practices at La Cascabel, a village on Culebra Bay, AD 800-1550 /
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Ceramics and stone : material culture in Pacific Nicaragua. - Polychrome potting traditions of Pacific Nicaragua, AD 800-1300 /
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Ceramic economy and communities of practice in Granada and Rivas, AD 1-1300 /
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Exploring technological modifications : variation of non-vessel "objects" from El Rayo, Nicaragua /
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A century in stone : one hundred years of lithic analyses in Nicaragua /
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The development of Nicaraguan rock art research /
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Mortuary practices in greater Nicoya. - Raising the dead : mortuary patterns in Pacific Nicaragua /
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Osteoarchaeological markers of health and identity at the site of El Rayo, Nicaragua, AD 550-1200 /
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Human bone artifacts : ancestor cults and human sacrifice in a community of Mesoamerican origin in Culebra Bay, Costa Rica /
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Conclusion. - Greater Nicoya through the looking-glass : merging culture history with social theory /
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781646421503
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Archaeology of Greater Nicoya Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2021] ISBN 9781646421503
Sprache:
Englisch
