Reconstructing Trajectories of Social Change: A Multiscale Approach Applied to the Valle Central Occidental, Costa Rica

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Advances and New Perspectives in the Isthmo-Colombian Area" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Since 2007, the project "Cambio social precolombino en San Ramón, Alajuela y sus alrededores" has aimed to reconstruct the trajectory of precolumbian social change (from at least 1000 BC to AD 1550) in this region of Costa Rica using systematic and standardized procedures. The most general and ambitious aim of the project is recording the development of an ancient society in southern Central America, as well as interpreting its social configurations and transformations. Two scales of analysis have been implemented in San Ramón within the framework of the project: at the regional level and the settlement level. The multiscale approach has allowed us to obtain a most comprehensive picture of the social developments in the region. The new data generated a picture of ancient social organization that is much more complex than the one provided by local traditional schemes.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Advances and New Perspectives in the Isthmo-Colombian Area

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Abstract Id(s): 32357