Title The archaeology of Greater Nicoya : two decades of research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica / edited by Larry Steinbrenner, Alexander Geurds, Geoffrey G. McCafferty, and Silvia Salgado

Published Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 552 pages) : color illustrations, color maps Contents Introduction / Larry Steinbrenner -- Redefining greater Nicoya. Contact-era Pacific Nicaragua : indigenous groups & their origins / Larry Steinbrenner -- Indigenous peoples of Pacific Nicaragua and Nicoya in the sixteenth century : a historical approach / Eugenia Ibarra Rojas -- A critical reevaluation of Pacific Nicaragua's late period chronology / Larry Steinbrenner and Geoffrey G. McCafferty -- Projects and surveys. The Managua metropolitan project : a retrospective / Frederick W. Lange -- Twenty years of Nicaraguan archaeology : results of the University of Calgary projects / Geoffrey G. McCafferty -- The development of social complexity in the Rivas Region, Pacific Nicaragua / Karen Niemel Garrard -- Social practices at La Cascabel, a village on Culebra Bay, AD 800-1550 / Ana Cristina Aguilar Vega -- Ceramics and stone : material culture in Pacific Nicaragua. Polychrome potting traditions of Pacific Nicaragua, AD 800-1300 / Larry Steinbrenner -- Ceramic economy and communities of practice in Granada and Rivas, AD 1-1300 / Carrie L. Dennett -- Exploring technological modifications : variation of non-vessel "objects" from El Rayo, Nicaragua / Sacha Wilke -- A century in stone : one hundred years of lithic analyses in Nicaragua / Adam K. Benfer -- The development of Nicaraguan rock art research / Suzanne M. Baker -- Mortuary practices in greater Nicoya. Raising the dead : mortuary patterns in Pacific Nicaragua / Geoffrey G. McCafferty, Andrea L. Waters-Rist, Sharisse McCafferty, Celise Fricker, and Jessica Manion -- Osteoarchaeological markers of health and identity at the site of El Rayo, Nicaragua, AD 550-1200 / Andrea L. Waters-Rist and Geoffrey G. McCafferty -- Human bone artifacts : ancestor cults and human sacrifice in a community of Mesoamerican origin in Culebra Bay, Costa Rica / Anayensy Herrera Villalobos and Felipe Solís Del Vecchio -- Conclusion. Greater Nicoya through the looking-glass : merging culture history with social theory / Alexander Geurds Summary "Provides an overview of this archaeological subarea encompassing Pacific Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Colonized by diverse peoples of Mesoamerican origin centuries before the arrival of Europeans, Greater Nicoya remains controversial in the twenty-first century as scholars struggle to achieve consensus on questions of geography, chronology, and cultural identity" -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed December 4, 2023) Subject Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- History Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Antiquities Indians of Central America -- Costa Rica -- Nicoya Peninsula -- History Indians of Central America -- Costa Rica -- Nicoya Peninsula -- Antiquities SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Indians of Central America Indians of Central America -- Antiquities Indis de l'Amèrica Central. Restes arqueològiques. Costa Rica -- Nicoya Peninsula Nicaragua Gran Nicoia (Regió històrica) Genre/Form History Llibres electrònics. Form Electronic book Author Steinbrenner, Larry, editor. Geurds, Alexander, 1974- editor. McCafferty, Geoffrey G., editor. Salgado González, Silvia, editor. LC no. 2021015347 ISBN 9781646421510 1646421515

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