Overland Travel Routes and Exchange Spheres of Pacific Nicaragua Using Obsidian and Ceramic Data from Chiquilistagua

Author(s): Jason Paling; Justin Lowry

Year: 2024

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Centralizing Central America: New Evidence, Fresh Perspectives, and Working on New Paradigms" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The emergence of social complexity often incorporates social, political, and economic inter- and intra-regional interactions. In this paper we examine the emerging social spheres and exchange networks that developed during the Tempisque period (500 BC–AD 300) among small prehistoric agrarian hamlets near Lake Managua. Geochemical analysis of ceramic and obsidian artifacts, in conjunction with GIS predictive modeling, presents possible overland travel routes and exchange spheres, and we then discuss the role these networks had in lower Central America.

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Overland Travel Routes and Exchange Spheres of Pacific Nicaragua Using Obsidian and Ceramic Data from Chiquilistagua. Jason Paling, Justin Lowry. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 497688)

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Keywords

General
Ceramic and Obsidian • Digital Archaeology: GIS • Intermediate Area • Political economy

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Pacific Coast

Spatial Coverage

min long: -109.226; min lat: 13.112 ; max long: -90.923; max lat: 21.125 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 39281.0