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Routes, Interaction and Exchange in the Southern Maya Area book cover

1st Edition

Routes, Interaction and Exchange in the Southern Maya Area

Edited By Eugenia Robinson, Gavin Davies Copyright 2023
436 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

436 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

436 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. The book presents the research of both archaeologists and art historians to identify routes of... Read more

1. Introduction to Routes, Interaction and Exchange

Gavin R. Davies, Eugenia J. Robinson, Francisco Estrada-Belli and Geoffrey E. Braswell

Part I: Hubs, Networks and Economies of the Preclassic Period

2. Chiapa de Corzo: Exchange Routes and Cultural Interaction between Zoque and Maya Regions

Lynneth S. Lowe

3. Tak’alik Ab’aj and its Neighbors in the Network of the Ritual Market Economy

Christa Schieber De Lavarreda and Miguel Orrego Corzo

4. Izapa and the Formative Period Kingdoms of Southern Pacific Mesoamerica

Robert M. Rosenswig

Part II: Routes, Interaction and Exchange during the Classic Period

5. About-Faces: Stylistic Evolutions and Interactions at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala

Lucia R. Henderson

6. Interaction and Ideology: The Teotihuacan-Style Censers from the Pacific Coast of Guatemala

Annabeth Headrick, Dorie Reents-Budet, and Ronald L. Bishop

7. Long-Distance Exchange and the Ballgame at Kaminaljuyu

Bárbara Arroyo and Gloria Ajú

8. "The Mountain Trails are Well Traveled": Routes and Economic Organization in the Lake Atitlan Basin

Gavin R. Davies and María De Los Ángeles Corado

9. Least-Cost Routes and the Kaqchikel Maya Region: Intercommunity Trade, Movement and Communication

Eugenia J. Robinson, Geoffrey E. Braswell and Francisco Estrada-Belli

10. American Pompeii: Old Evidence on Late Classic Ties between the Pacific Coast and the Antigua Valley

Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos and Adrian Everett

11. Raxruha Viejo and Highland–Lowland Interaction during the Classic Period

Chloé Andrieu, Julien Sion, Divina Perla-Barrera, Carlos Fidel Tuyuc Nij, Carlos Efraín Tox, and Jackeline Quiñónez

12. Tracking Trade: Explaining the Rise of Copan’s Polity in Southeastern Mesoamerica

Erlend M. Johnson and Marcello A. Canuto

Part III: Production, Trade and Migration in the Postclassic Period

13. Export Craft Production in Soconusco: An Update on Tohil Plumbate

Hector Neff

14. Trade, Migration, and Continuity at Plumbate Era Izapa

Rebecca Mendelsohn

15. lnteraction and Exchange in Late Postclassic Xoconochco

Janine Gasco and Daniel Pierce

16. An Uphill View of the Northern Guatemalan Highlands from the Southern Maya Lowlands

Brent K.S. Woodfill and Erin L. Sears

Biography

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.

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