The Archaeology of Lower Central America
Edited by Fredrick W. Lange and Doris Z. Stone
This book provides a much-needed overview of the archaeological past, present, and future of lower Central America. It addresses questions such as why the region never produced complex societies like its neighbors to the north and south and takes up themes such as ecological adaptation and subsistence, trade, and sociopolitical development.
1984. 490 pp., 12 maps, 49 figures, 9 tables, 10 appendices, notes, references, index, 6 x 9
Contributors: Warwick Bray, Richard Cooke, Robert P. Drolet, Wolfgang Haberland, Paul F. Healy, Frederick W. Lange, Robert J. Sharer, Payson D. Sheets, M. J. Snarskis, Doris Z. Stone, Gordon R. Willey
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- Introduction
Frederick W. Lange and Doris Z. Stone - A History of Lower Central American Archaeology
Doris Z. Stone - Cultural Geography of Pre-Columbian Lower Central America
Frederick W. Lange - Lower Central America as Seen from Mesoamerica
Robert J. Sharer - The Prehistory of El Salvador: An Interpretive Summary
Payson D. Sheets - The Archaeology of Honduras
Paul F. Healy - The Greater Nicoya Archaeological Subarea
Frederick W. Lange - Central America: The Lower Caribbean
M.J. Snarkskis - The Archaeology of Greater Chiriqui
Wolfgang Haberland - A Note on Southwestern Costa Rica
Robert P. Drolet - Archaeological Research in Central and Eastern Panama: A Review of Some Problems
Richard Cooke - Across the Darien Gap: A Colombian View of Isthmian Archaeology
Warwick Bray - A Summary of the Archaeology of Lower Central America
Gordon R. Willey
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