Michoacán and West Mexico: New Research in Interaction, Exchange, and Mobility

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Michoacán and West Mexico: New Research in Interaction, Exchange, and Mobility" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This session will address interaction, exchange, and the dynamics of mobility in different areas located in Michoacán and Western Mexico broadly. It is also open to the presentation of other topics related to recent research in this area. Papers presented will cover many different forms of interaction operating at inter- and intrasite, regional, and long-distance scales. As different forms of interaction leave different traces in the archaeological record, they can be studied from different theoretical perspectives or lines of evidence. This session will examine new research on how these movements of people and objects across the landscape developed in Michoacan and West Mexico more broadly.