Fire and Salt

Human Niche Construction and Holocene Landscape Evolution on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mesoamerica

Hector Neff (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2024
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
9780826366771 (ISBN)

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Traces the history of how human activities have helped build the littoral landscape of Pacific coastal southern Mesoamerica over the past five thousand years. Evidence comes from airborne Lidar, surface reconnaissance and excavation within the mangrove-estuary zone, sediment coring, and a chronological framework.

Fire and Salt traces the history of how human activities have helped build the littoral landscape of Pacific coastal southern Mesoamerica over the past five thousand years. Evidence comes from airborne Lidar, surface reconnaissance and excavation within the mangrove-estuary zone, sediment coring, and a chronological framework encompassing nine ceramic complexes extending from Early Formative to Historic times.

In presenting the landscape as it exists today, this volume also describes what may soon be lost. The mangrove forests harbor a record of the human past, a focus of the present volume, but they also shield the coast from storms and tsunamis, provide nurseries for commercially important marine species, and store large amounts of carbon.

Hector Neff is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the coeditor of Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America: Studies of Production and Exchange through Compositional Analysis.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Fieldwork on the Proyecto Arqueológico Costa del Soconusco

Chapter 3. Chronology and Demography

Chapter 4. Archaic and Early Formative Niche Construction of the Soconusco Coast
Hector Neff, James T. Daniels, Paul Burger, and Heather Thakar

Chapter 5. Peak Salt: The Evolution of Specialized Salt Production during Middle through Terminal Formative Times
Hector Neff, Paul Burger, and Marx Navarro Castillo

Chapter 6. Early Classic Abandonment, the Evolution of a Mesoamerican Tradeware, and the Enigmatic Early Postclassic Period
Hector Neff, Marx Navarro Castillo, and Sachiko Sakai

Chapter 7. Late Postclassic through Modern Use of the Eastern Soconusco Wetlands
Hector Neff, Janine Gasco, and Marx Navarro Castillo

Chapter 8. Conclusion

References

Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Archaeologies of Landscape in the Americas Series
Zusatzinfo	155 illustrations, 144 halftones, 11 tables
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780826366771 / 9780826366771
Zustand	Neuware