Southeastern Mesoamerica : indigenous interaction, resilience, and change /

Highlights the diversity and dynamism of Indigenous groups that inhabited and continue to inhabit the borders of southeastern Mesoamerica, that includes parts of present-day Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Combining archaeological, ethnohistoric and historic data to understand the long-term soc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Goodwin, Whitney A. (Editor), Johnson, Erlend (Editor), Figueroa, Alejandro J. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2021]
Subjects:	Indians of Central America > Social conditions. Indians of Central America > Politics and government. Indians of Central America > Antiquities. Ethnohistory > Central America. Central America > Antiquities.

Table of Contents:

Integrating the prehistoric natural and social landscapes of the highlands of southwest Honduras : a deep history / Alejandro J. Figueroa and Timothy Scheffler
Evaluating the size, limits and influence of the Copán polity in western Honduras via Protoclassic to Late Classic period transformations in the Cucuyagua and Sensenti valleys of western Honduras / Erlend Johnson
Río Amarillo : a community on the margins of ancient Copán / Cameron L. McNeil, Edy Barrios, Walter Burgos, Antolín Velásquez, and Mauricio Díaz García
The archaeology of Jesú︢s de Otoro and inter-valley variation in central Honduras / William J. McFarlane and Miranda Stockett Suri
Archaeological research in southeastern Honduras : the case of the Jamastrán Valley / Eva L. Martínez
Ancient Mosquito Coast : why only certain material culture was adopted from outsiders / Christopher Begley
The royalization of Roatán : colonial encounters with the Pech and Miskitu / Lorena D. Mihok, E. Christian Wells, and Whitney A. Goodwin
Historical archaeology in Honduras / Russell Sheptak
The politics of ethnic identity in the context of the "frontier" : ethnohistory of the Lenca, Chortí and Nahua peoples of Honduras / Gloria Lara-Pinto
Honduran Lenca chiefdoms of the Contact period (1502-1550) / Pastor Rodolfo Gómez Zúñiga
Sixteenth-century mobility and interaction in southeastern Mesoamerica : clues from conquistador routes / William R. Fowler
An alternative framework for Honduran archaeology / Rosemary A. Joyce
Sociopolitical dynamism, fluidity, and fragmentation in southeast Mesoamerica / Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban.