Vertical Economy of Prehispanic Pacific Coast Guatemala
Author(s): Michal Gilewski
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The prehispanic and indigenous cultures of the Pacific coast of Guatemala are usually known from ethnographic research and ethnohistorical sources that relate to specific local communities and to local archaeology that relates to specific sites. In this paper, I present how environmental diversity leads to interdependence and integration of the whole region. Among the data, I present various ethnographic and ethnohistoric information and compare it to past archaeological summaries. In conclusion, I pick up the suggestion of Spanish ethnohistorian Elias Zamora Acosta and compare this interregional system to the concept of “Vertical economy” known from the Andean region.
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Vertical Economy of Prehispanic Pacific Coast Guatemala. Michal Gilewski. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 500055)
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Keywords
General
Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology
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Highland Maya
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Maya: Postclassic
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Southern Maya
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Subsistence and Foodways
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Maya highlands
Spatial Coverage
min long: -94.197; min lat: 14.009 ; max long: -87.737; max lat: 18.021 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 40423.0