Fire and Salt

Human Niche Construction and Holocene Landscape Evolution on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mesoamerica

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Fire and Salt traces the history of how human activities have helped build the littoral landscape of Pacific coastal southern Mesoamerica over the past five thousand years. Evidence comes from airborne Lidar, surface reconnaissance and excavation within the mangrove-estuary zone, sediment coring, and a chronological framework encompassing nine ceramic complexes extending from Early Formative to Historic times.In presenting the landscape as it exists today, this volume also describes what may soon be lost. The mangrove forests harbor a record of the human past, a focus of the present volume, but they also shield the coast from storms and tsunamis, provide nurseries for commercially important marine species, and store large amounts of carbon.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-30
Mått216 x 279 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieArchaeologies of Landscape in the Americas Series
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of New Mexico Press
ISBN9780826366771

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List of IllustrationsList of TablesPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Fieldwork on the Proyecto Arqueológico Costa del SoconuscoChapter 3. Chronology and DemographyChapter 4. Archaic and Early Formative Niche Construction of the Soconusco CoastHector Neff, James T. Daniels, Paul Burger, and Heather ThakarChapter 5. Peak Salt: The Evolution of Specialized Salt Production during Middle through Terminal Formative TimesHector Neff, Paul Burger, and Marx Navarro CastilloChapter 6. Early Classic Abandonment, the Evolution of a Mesoamerican Tradeware, and the Enigmatic Early Postclassic PeriodHector Neff, Marx Navarro Castillo, and Sachiko SakaiChapter 7. Late Postclassic through Modern Use of the Eastern Soconusco WetlandsHector Neff, Janine Gasco, and Marx Navarro CastilloChapter 8. ConclusionReferences

“Hector Neff’s offers a unique and compelling analysis of the links between environment, technology, and human adaptation over the course of millennia. He brings to bear important and detailed new information and synthesizes it with older work. His distinctive contribution is to analyze how pyrotechnology, the basis of both salt production and pottery, impacted the coastal environmental zone and how the interaction between fire and salt led to the development of Mesoamerica’s most enigmatic pottery, Plumbate.” - Michael W. Love, co-editor of Archaeology and Identity on the Pacific Coast and Southern Highlands of Mesoamerica