Reconstructing the Political Organization of Pre-Columbian Nicaragua

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Reconstructing the Political Organization of Pre-Columbian Nicaragua," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Discussions of political organization in lower Central America often include the assumptions of political complexity. This session will include papers on recent archaeological evidence and re-evaluations of political complexity in Nicaragua and lower Central America. Data include exchange, trade, chronological markers, ideological connections and other politically relevant data that investigate political complexity.