Recent Research in the Southern Highlands and Pacific Coast of Mesoamerica |
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Authors: | Michael Love |
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Institution: | (1) California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330, USA |
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Abstract: | Recent research on the southern highlands and Pacific Coast of Mesoamerica has investigated topics of interest to all archaeologists.
Although best known for studies on the development of early social complexity, research in the region also has addressed hunter/gatherer
subsistence patterns, early sedentism, the origins of food production, the development of the state, migration, the construction
of social identity, political economy, and the collapse of complex societies. Research has accelerated in the past ten years,
fueled by efforts of scholars from a number of disciplines. Recent paleo-ecological studies have provided much needed data
for understanding human social action against the backdrop of the natural environment, while the region also has been the
scene for testing numerous innovative theories of social change. Studies of identity and its manifestation in material culture
have been especially productive. |
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Keywords: | Mesoamerica Guatemala Mexico Maya Sociopolitical evolution State formation Collapse |
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