Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco
Richard G. . Ed(S): Lesure
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Paperback. Sets archaeological excavations at a special-propose estuary site in coastal Chiapas, Mexico, into the larger anthropological context of the origins of agriculture and sedentary life in ancient Mesoamerica. Editor(s): Lesure, Richard G. Series: Monographs. Num Pages: 311 pages, , black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1043.
The Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, is the location of some of the earliest pottery-using villages of ancient Mesoamerica. Mobile early inhabitants of the area harvested marsh clams in the estuaries, leaving behind vast mounds of shell. With the introduction of pottery and the establishment of permanent villages (from 1900 B.C.), use of the resource-rich estuary changed. The archaeological manifestation of that new estuary adaptation is a dramatic pattern of inter-site variability in pottery vessel forms. Vessels at sites within the estuary were about seventy percent neckless jars --"tecomates"-- while vessels at ... Read more
The Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, is the location of some of the earliest pottery-using villages of ancient Mesoamerica. Mobile early inhabitants of the area harvested marsh clams in the estuaries, leaving behind vast mounds of shell. With the introduction of pottery and the establishment of permanent villages (from 1900 B.C.), use of the resource-rich estuary changed. The archaeological manifestation of that new estuary adaptation is a dramatic pattern of inter-site variability in pottery vessel forms. Vessels at sites within the estuary were about seventy percent neckless jars --"tecomates"-- while vessels at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
Series
Monographs
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781931745796
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V9781931745796
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About Richard G. . Ed(S): Lesure
Richard Lesure is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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