Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco : El Varal and the Problem of Inter-Site Assemblage Variation

Richard G. Lesure

ISBN 10: 193174579X / ISBN 13: 9781931745796

Editore: ISD International - IPSUK Mär 2010, 2010

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Neuware - 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 contemporaneous sites a few kilometers inland were seventy percent open dishes. The pattern is well-known, but the the settlement arrangements or subsistence practices that produced it have remained unclear. Archaeological investigations at El Varal, a special-purpose estuary site of the later Early Formative (1250-1000 B.C.) expand possibilities for an anthropological understanding of the archaeological patterns. The goal of this volume is to describe excavations and finds at the site and to propose, based on a variety of analyses, a new understanding of Early Formative assemblage variability.

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• Titolo: Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco : El Varal and the Problem of Inter-Site Assemblage Variation
• Editore: ISD International - IPSUK Mär 2010
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 193174579X
• ISBN 13: 9781931745796
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 153 A x 15 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 153 millimetri di altezza per 15 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1043 grammi

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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 contemporaneous sites a few kilometers inland were seventy percent open dishes. The pattern is well-known, but the the settlement arrangements or subsistence practices that produced it have remained unclear. Archaeological investigations at El Varal, a special-purpose estuary site of the later Early Formative (1250-1000 B.C.) expand possibilities for an anthropological understanding of the archaeological patterns. The goal of this volume is to describe excavations and finds at the site and to propose, based on a variety of analyses, a new understanding of Early Formative assemblage variability.

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The goal of this volume is to describe excavations and finds at Soconusco sites in Mexico and Guatemala and to propose, based on a variety of analyses, a new understanding of Early Formative assemblage variability.