Trade, exchange, production and consumption in pre-Columbian and colonial Lower Central America (Panama Nicaragua and Costa Rica)
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
This symposium examines material manifestations and theoretical aspects of trade, exchange, production and consumption in pre-Columbian and colonial Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Both organic (plant and animal) remains and a variety of artifact classes (including, but not limited to, ceramics, stone tools and shell artifacts) are examined and discussed. The production, use and discard of material goods is examined with attention paid to evidence of craft specialization and long- and short-range trade and exchange. Production and consumption of perishables, especially plant and animal foods, is examined in terms of identification of regional consumption patterns and possible human effects on these resources and past environments. This symposium hopes to renew interest in this dynamic geographic region linking Mesoamerica and Andean South America.
Other Keywords
Trade •
Panama •
Social Complexity •
mortuary •
Subsistence •
Historical Archaeology •
Zooarchaeology •
Exchange •
Chiefdoms •
Paleoethnobotany
Geographic Keywords
Central America •
Caribbean
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- Afrocolonial Archaeology in Panama: La Villa de Santiago del Principe, the first free African peoples of the Americas (2015)
- As Good as it Sounds: Archaeology of Las Delicias, Managua, Nicaragua (2015)
- Chinina, Panama. First evidence of pre-hispanic raised fields in Central America (2015)
- "Conspicuous Consumption" in Ancient Costa Rica and Panama (2015)
- Exchange, production and consumption of exotic and exclusive goods in the delta of Diquís, Costa Rica. (2015)
- Farming and Foraging in Late Ceramic Period Society at Sitio Drago, Western Caribbean Panama (2015)
- Guns, Shipwrecks, and Investigations of Spanish Colonial Trade and Privateering in the 17th Century: The Chagres River Maritime Borderland, Panamá (2015)
- Trade, Exchange, Production and Consumption at Sitio Drago, Bocas del Toro, Panama (2015)