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This book explores routes of interaction and exchange in the Southern Maya Area, a zone that had both short and long-distance trade and whose natural resources were exploited by merchants and rulers, colonists and entrepreneurs during Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Aztec, colonial and modern times.
Sommario
1. Introduction to Routes, Interaction and Exchange;
Part I: Hubs, Networks and Economies of the Preclassic Period; 2. Chiapa de Corzo: Exchange Routes and Cultural Interaction between Zoque and Maya Regions; 3. Tak'alik Ab'aj and its Neighbors in the Network of the Ritual Market Economy; 4. Izapa and the Formative Period Kingdoms of Southern Pacific Mesoamerica;
Part II: Routes, Interaction and Exchange during the Classic Period; 5. About-Faces: Stylistic Evolutions and Interactions at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala; 6. Interaction and Ideology: The Teotihuacan-Style Censers from the Pacific Coast of Guatemala; 7. Long-Distance Exchange and the Ballgame at Kaminaljuyu; 8. "The Mountain Trails are Well Traveled": Routes and Economic Organization in the Lake Atitlan Basin; 9. Least-Cost Routes and the Kaqchikel Maya Region: Intercommunity Trade, Movement and Communication; 10. American Pompeii: Old Evidence on Late Classic Ties between the Pacific Coast and the Antigua Valley; 11. Raxruha Viejo and Highland-Lowland Interaction during the Classic Period; 12. Tracking Trade: Explaining the Rise of Copan's Polity in Southeastern Mesoamerica;
Part III: Production, Trade and Migration in the Postclassic Period; 13. Export Craft Production in Soconusco: An Update on Tohil Plumbate; 14. Trade, Migration, and Continuity at Plumbate Era Izapa; 15. lnteraction and Exchange in Late Postclassic Xoconochco; 16. An Uphill View of the Northern Guatemalan Highlands from the Southern Maya Lowlands
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Eugenia J. Robinson is a Research Fellow of the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University and a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Montgomery College. Her research interests are settlement and landscape studies, interaction and rock images in the Kaqchikel Maya highlands.
Gavin R. Davies has a PhD in anthropological archaeology from the University of Kentucky and is a Project Archaeologist with TRC. His doctoral thesis investigated long-term resilience and adaptation in the Lake Atitlan Basin of Highland Guatemala.
Riassunto
This book explores routes of interaction and exchange in the Southern Maya Area, a zone that had both short and long-distance trade and whose natural resources were exploited by merchants and rulers, colonists and entrepreneurs during Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Aztec, colonial and modern times.
