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The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya : Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Title
The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya : Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica / edited by Larry Steinbrenner, Alexander Geurds, Geoffrey G. McCafferty, and Silvia Salgado.
ISBN
9781646421510
9781646421503
Publication
Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (552 pages): color illustrations, color maps
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
"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" -- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
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.
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