Early Ceramics, Human Mobility, And Interaction: Original Developments Of The Pacific Coast In Connection With South America

Summary

Various cultural parallels have been mentioned in the past about the connections between two important regions in the Americas: South America and Mesoamerica. The nature of how this contact took place was a research question that has interested many but is still unanswered. This paper will address the question using information from archaeological fieldwork carried out at sites on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. Additional information will come from the “invisible” records including paleoecological information and ways of life that might connect both regions in different ways. Considerations of other data sets will be included complementing arguments for the impact of human mobility and relationships between these regions.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• Olmec, Chavin, and Things in Between: A Comparative Approach to Emergent Complex Societies

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