Waves of Influence

Foreword

I. Deep Time and Broad Brush
1. Waves of Influence: Maritime Contacts along the Pacific Coast [Christopher S. Beekman and Colin McEwan]
2. The Effects of Intra- and Inter-annual Wind and Current Variation on Sailing Raft Travel along the Pacific Coast of the Americas [Richard Callaghan, Alvaro Montenegro, and Scott M. Fitzpatrick]
3. Tracing the Movement of Ancient Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in the Americas: New Approaches [Sonia Zarrillo and Michael Blake]

II. Early versus Late Networks along Two Key Coastlines
4. Landfalls, Sunbursts, and the Capacha Problem: A Case for Pacific Coastal Interaction in Early Formative Period Mesoamerica [Guy David Hepp]
5. Our Mother the Sea: The Pacific Coastal Exchange Network of Late Postclassic Mexico [John M. D. Pohl and Michael D. Mathiowetz]
6. “Global Culture” and Political Authority on the Central American Coast in the Late Preclassic (300 BCE–300 CE) [Rebecca R. Mendelsohn]
7. Trading in the Sixteenth Century: Chibchan “Rich Men” and Mesoamericans in Southern Central America, 800–1600 CE [Eugenia Ibarra Rojas]

III. Point-to-Point Contacts between Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Mexico
8. Archaeological Evidence for Long-Distance Maritime Contacts between the Tesoro/Comala/Armería Phases, West Mexico, and the Jama-Coaque Tradition, Coastal Ecuador [James A. Zeidler and José Carlos Beltrán Medina]
9. Evaluating Pre-Columbian Contact between Ecuador and Costa Rica: A Ceramic Approach [Maria Masucci and John W. Hoopes]
10. The Craft, Use, and Distribution of Axe-Monies in Mesoamerica [Kim Cullen Cobb, Christopher S. Beekman, Emily Kaplan, and Thomas Lam]

IV. The Long Reach of Spondylus
11. Spondylus as a Driver of Interregional Exchange: Mapping Recent Ecological Research on Spondylus to Inform the Model [Benjamin Carter]
12. Auditory Exostoses and Spondylus Diving in Ancient Ecuador [Douglas H. Ubelaker, Yaohan Wu, and James A. Zeidler]
13. Spondylus and Its Counterparts in Mesoamerica: Affinities and Oppositions [Christopher S. Beekman]
14. The Origins of Manteño Sailing Craft and Trade on the Coast of Ecuador: The View from Salango [Richard Lunniss]
15. Isla de la Plata, Ecuador: An Oceanic Sanctuary from circa 2000 BCE to 1531 CE [Colin McEwan and Richard Lunniss]
Discussion
16. Understanding Emerging Connections in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Communities and Networks of Practice [Rosemary A. Joyce]

Contributors
Index