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.

Other Keywords
Intermediate Area • Ceramic Analysis • Environment and Climate  • Political economy • Geoarchaeology • Architecture • Survey • Landscape Archaeology • Settlement patterns • Nicaragua

Geographic Keywords
Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country) • Department of Martinique (Country) • Department of Guadeloupe (Country) • Antigua and Barbuda (Country) • Belize (Country) • Anguilla (Country) • Republic of Honduras (Country) • St. Lucia (Country) • Montserrat (Country)

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  1. The Apparent Resilience of the Dry Tropical Forests of the Nicaraguan Region of the Central American Dry Corridor to Extreme Variations in Climate over the Last c.1200 Years (2019)
  2. Just a Matter of Time: Preliminary Ceramic Chronology Building in Central Nicaragua (2019)
  3. Mapping of Ancient Managua, Nicaragua using GIS (2019)
  4. New Views on the Ancient City of Cihuatán (2019)
  5. Politics along the Rivers: An Example from the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras (2019)
  6. Pre-Columbian Adaptation to Fluvial Environments, Chontales, Central Nicaragua: 2018 PRISMA Results. (2019)
  7. Preliminary Results of Archaeological Survey in the Zapatera Archipelago, Granada, Nicaragua (2019)
  8. Religious Practices of Pre-Columbian Pacific Nicaragua (2019)
  9. Structurally Speaking; Architecture of El Rayo and the Greater Nicoya Region (2019)