Beginnings of Mesoamerican Civilization - Inter-Regional Interaction and the Olmec

Informationen zum Autor Robert M. Rosenswig is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Albany. He has directed archaeological fieldwork in Mexico, Belize, and Costa Rica and has published numerous articles on the origins of agriculture and the development of socio-political complexity in Mesoamerica. Klappentext Rosenswig proposes that we understand Early Formative Mesoamerica as an archipelago of complex societies. Zusammenfassung The disagreements about Early Formative society that have raged over the past thirty years focus on the nature of inter-regional interaction. Rosenswig evaluates these debates from a fresh theoretical perspective! integrating new data into an assessment of Soconusco society before! during! and after the apogee of the San Lorenzo polity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. An Early Formative Mesoamerican Problem: 1. Introduction; 2. Knowledge in an archipelago of complexity; 3. Mesoamerica's first style horizons and the 'Olmec problem'; Part II. Archaeological Data: 4. Settlement patterns and architecture; 5. Diet, food processing and feasting; 6. Representations and aesthetics; 7. Inter-regional exchange patterns; Part III. Deriving Meaning from the Archaeological Record: 8. Data and expectations; 9. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Robert M. Rosenswig, Robert M. (Assistant Professor Rosenswig, Rosenswig Robert M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521111027
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11102-7
• No. of pages: 398
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South America, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, BCE period – Protohistory, History of the Americas: pre-Columbian period, Archaeological Theory, Central America, Mexico and Central America