Waves of influence Pacific maritime networks connecting Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America Christopher S. Beekman and Colin McEwan, editors
Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium "Waves of Influence: Revisiting Coastal Connections between Pre-Columbian Northwest South America and Central America" (2019 : Washington, D.C.) Search this
x, 604 pages illustrations (some color), maps 29 cm
Type:
Congresses
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Place:
Mexique
Amérique du Sud
Pacific Coast (Mexico)
Pacific Coast (South America)
Pacific Coast (Central America)
Mexico
Pacific Coast
Central America
South America
Date:
2022
To 1500
Notes:
"Volume based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies symposium 'Waves of Influence: Revisiting Coastal Connections between Pre-Columbian Northwest South America and Central America,' held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., on October 11-12, 2019"--Title page verso
NMAI copy 39088020527677 gift of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Contents:
Part I. Deep time and broad brush. Waves of influence : maritime contacts along the Pacific coast / Christopher S. Beekman, Colin McEwan -- The effects of intra- and interannual wind and current variation on sailing raft travel along the Pacific coast of the Americas / Richard Callaghan, Alvaro Montenegro, Scott M. Fitzpatrick -- Tracing the movement of ancient cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in the Americas : new approaches / Sonia Zarrillo, Michael Blake -- Part II. Early versus late networks along two key coastlines. Landfalls, sunbursts, and the Capacha problem : a case for Pacific coastal interaction in Early Formative-Period Mesoamerica / Guy David Hepp -- Our mother the sea : the Pacific coastal exchange network of Late Postclassic Mexico / John M. D. Pohl, Michael D. Mathiowetz -- "Global culture" and political authority on the Central American coast in the Late Preclassic (300 BCE-300 CE) / Rebecca R. Mendelsohn -- Trading in the sixteenth century : Chibchan "rich men" and Mesoamericans in southern Central America, 800-1600 CE / Eugenia Ibarra Rojas -- Part III. Point-to-point contacts between Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Archaeological evidence for long-distance maritime contacts between the Tesoro/Comala/Armería phases, West Mexico, and the Jama-Coaque tradition, coastal Ecuador / James A. Zeidler, José Carlos Beltrán Medina -- Evaluating Pre-Columbian contact between Ecuador and Costa Rica : a ceramic approach / Maria Masucci, John W. Hoopes -- The craft, use, and distribution of axe-monies in Mesoamerica / Kim Cullen Cobb, Christopher S. Beekman, Emily Kaplan, Thomas Lam -- Part IV. The long reach of spondylus. Spondylus as a driver of interregional exchange : mapping recent ecological research on spondylus to inform Pre-Columbian extraction and use / Benjamin Carter -- Auditory exostoses and spondylus diving in ancient Ecuador / Douglas H. Ubelaker, Yaohan Wu, James A. Zeidler -- Spondylus and its counterparts in Mesoamerica : affinities and oppositions / Christopher S. Beekman -- The origins of Manteño sailing craft and trade on the coast of Ecuador : the view from Salango / Richard Lunniss -- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador : an oceanic sanctuary from circa 2000 BCE to 1531 CE / Colin McEwan, Richard Lunniss -- Discussion. Understanding emerging connections in the Pre-Columbian Americas : communities and networks of practice / Rosemary A. Joyce
Summary:
"The Pacific Coast of the Americas linked Pre-Columbian complex societies from Mexico to Peru, facilitating exploration, communication, and transportation in a way that terrestrial routes could not match. Yet West Mexico, the Isthmo-Colombian Area, and Ecuador, with their great stretches of coastline, were marginalized by the definition of the Mesoamerican and Andean culture areas in the 1940s. Waves of Influence seeks to renew the inquiry into Pacific coastal contacts and bring fresh attention to connections between regions often seen as isolated from one another. This volume reassesses the evidence for Pre-Columbian maritime contacts along the Pacific Coast, from western Mexico to northwestern South America. The authors draw upon recent models of globalization, technological style, and ritual commensality alongside methods such as computer simulation, iconographic analysis, skeletal studies, and operational chains. No single model can characterize the coastal network over 4,000 km of coastline and over 4,000 years of interaction, and authors present individual case studies to demonstrate how each region participated in its own distinct networks. Essays address the difficulty of maritime movement, the transfer of crops, technology, and knowledge, the identification of different modalities of contact, and the detection of important nodes and social actors within the coastal network"-- Provided by publisher
