Inter-regional Relations of the Zoque Province and its Surrounding Areas.

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Inter-regional Relations of the Zoque Province and its Surrounding Areas." at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Human communities do not develop in isolation, they are established, used, and have a great diversity of networks that help them grow. That network could be a simple connection with the local members to an inter-regional system where people, materials/artifacts, and ideas/concepts travel. In this particular case, the Zoque province from southern Mexico that still poorly researched, is an important link to understanding the cultural relationships established between central Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, the southern Pacific province, and the Maya region through the Central Depression or the Zoque region. This symposium had the goal to synthesize past research in the region, new work in the area, as well as future studies.