When is a Mesoamerican? Pleistocene origins of the Mesoamerican tradition / Jon C. Lohse -- Empty gourds make the most noise? Theories and data in the study of the Archaic period in Mesoamerica / Aleksander Borejsza -- Tales of the terminal Pleistocene : Clovis in Northern Mexico and the first Mesoamericans / Guadalupe Sanchez and John Carpenter -- La Cueva de los Hacheros : an early habitation site in Michoacan, Mexico / Jose Luis Punzo Diaz and Dante Bernardo Martinez -- Yuzanu 50 : an ephemeral camp of the Younger Dryas in the Mixteca Alta / Jon C. Lohse, Aleksander Borejsza, and Arthur A. Joyce -- Paleoindian sites from Central Mexico : paleoenvironment and dating / Silvia Gonzalez, David Huddart, Emma Toole, Isabel Israde Alcantara, and Gabriela Dominguez Vasquez -- Sitio Chivacabe : an early Paleoindian site in Western Highland Guatemala / Jon C. Lohse, David M. Yelacic, and Charles D. Frederick -- The Paleoindian to Archaic transition in Central America : Esperanza Phase projectile points recovered at the El Gigante Rockshelter site, Honduras / Harry B. Iceland and Kenneth G. Hirth -- The Lacustrine preceramic cultures in the Basin of Mexico : recent contributions / Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa, Emily McClung de Tapia, and Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales -- The preceramic in Oaxaca / Marcus Winter and Teresa Alarcon -- Preceramic occupations in North-Central and Western Mexico : a regional perspective / Brigitte Faugere -- Las Estacas : an early Archaic site in Morelos / Aleksander Borejsza, Luis Morett Alatorre, and Jon C. Lohse -- Preceramic lifeways on the Mesoamerican South Pacific Coast / Barbara Voorhies and Douglas J. Kennett -- Wetland villages in Soconusco, 6000-2000 BC : a new interpretation of Archaic Shell Mounds / John E. Clark and John G. Hodgson -- Yuzanu 36 : a Late Archaic site in the Mixteca Alta / Aleksander Borejsza, Arthur A. Joyce, Jon C. Lohse, and Isabel Rodriguez Lopez -- The end of the Archaic in the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica : a tipping point in the local trajectory toward agricultural village life / Richard G. Lesure, R. J. Sinensky, and Thomas Wake -- Sourcing preceramic obsidian from Las Estacas, Morelos, and Yuzanu 36, Oaxaca in the context of early Mesoamerican lithic procurement patterns / Arthur A. Joyce, Aleksander Borejsza, Jon C. Lohse, Luis Morett Alatorre, and Brendan Nash -- Preceramic archaeology in Mesoamerica : recent developments and future directions / Arthur A. Joyce.
Summary:
"Preceramic Mesoamerica delivers cutting-edge research on the Mesoamerican Paleoindian and Archaic periods. Chapters address a series of fundamental questions in American archaeology including the peopling of the Americas, human adaptations to late glacial landscapes, the Neolithic transition, and the origins of sedentism and early village life. This volume presents innovative and previously unpublished research on the Paleoindian and Archaic periods and evaluates current models in light of new findings. Examples include breakthroughs in dating Mesoamerica's earliest sites and their implications for models of hemispheric colonization; the transition to postglacial patterns of settlement and subsistence; divergent pathways to initial sedentism; the possibility of Archaic-period monumentality; changing patterns of interregional exchange and interaction; and debates surrounding the origins of agriculture, ceramics, and full-time village life. The volume provides a new perspective on the Mesoamerican Preceramic for students and scholars in archaeology, anthropology, and history. Readers will come to understand how the Preceramic contributed to the emergence of the cultural traditions that anthropologists recognize as Mesoamerica"-- Provided by publisher.
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