Inhaltsangabe:
  • Part I. Deep time and broad brush. Waves of influence : maritime contacts along the Pacific coast / Christopher S. Beekman, Colin McEwan
  • The effects of intra- and interannual wind and current variation on sailing raft travel along the Pacific coast of the Americas / Richard Callaghan, Alvaro Montenegro, Scott M. Fitzpatrick
  • Tracing the movement of ancient cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in the Americas : new approaches / Sonia Zarrillo, Michael Blake
  • Part II. Early versus late networks along two key coastlines. Landfalls, sunbursts, and the Capacha problem : a case for Pacific coastal interaction in Early Formative-Period Mesoamerica / Guy David Hepp
  • Our mother the sea : the Pacific coastal exchange network of Late Postclassic Mexico / John M. D. Pohl, Michael D. Mathiowetz
  • "Global culture" and political authority on the Central American coast in the Late Preclassic (300 BCE-300 CE) / Rebecca R. Mendelsohn
  • Trading in the sixteenth century : Chibchan "rich men" and Mesoamericans in southern Central America, 800-1600 CE / Eugenia Ibarra Rojas
  • Part III. Point-to-point contacts between Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Mexico. 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, José Carlos Beltrán Medina
  • Evaluating Pre-Columbian contact between Ecuador and Costa Rica : a ceramic approach / Maria Masucci, John W. Hoopes
  • The craft, use, and distribution of axe-monies in Mesoamerica / Kim Cullen Cobb, Christopher S. Beekman, Emily Kaplan, Thomas Lam
  • Part IV. The long reach of spondylus. Spondylus as a driver of interregional exchange : mapping recent ecological research on spondylus to inform Pre-Columbian extraction and use / Benjamin Carter
  • Auditory exostoses and spondylus diving in ancient Ecuador / Douglas H. Ubelaker, Yaohan Wu, James A. Zeidler
  • Spondylus and its counterparts in Mesoamerica : affinities and oppositions / Christopher S. Beekman
  • The origins of Manteño sailing craft and trade on the coast of Ecuador : the view from Salango / Richard Lunniss
  • Isla de la Plata, Ecuador : an oceanic sanctuary from circa 2000 BCE to 1531 CE / Colin McEwan, Richard Lunniss
  • Discussion. Understanding emerging connections in the Pre-Columbian Americas : communities and networks of practice / Rosemary A. Joyce.