Crafting and Trading along the Banks of the Telica: Artisan Communities and Regional Interaction in Eastern Honduras and Beyond

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Postclassic Mesoamerica: The View from the Southern Frontier" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper focuses on the regional role that two artisan communities, Chichicaste and Dos Quebradas, played as producers of pottery and obsidian blades within regional exchange networks. Chichicaste pottery has been recovered from many Honduran sites as well as from El Salvador and northern Nicaragua. The wide distribution of this distinctive pottery is noticeable given that the production locus is a small community vastly devastated by modern human development. Dos Quebradas, a larger site with monumental architecture was a production node for obsidian blades sourced as far as Central Mexico. The location of both communities at the cross-roads of trade routes from Mesoamerica, northwest-central Honduras, and the Isthmo-Colombian-Chibchan regions allowed them to participate in the exchange of international goods and ideas until Postclassic times.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Postclassic Mesoamerica: The View from the Southern Frontier

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Abstract Id(s): 32052