Central America before the Spanish Conquest has often been considered by North American archaeologists as a backwater of peripheral importance located between the advanced ancient civilizations of South America and Mesoamerica (MexicanMaya country). Recent archaeological research has revealed that this area played a much more significant role in New World cultural history than was previously thought. Healys study examines the archaeological record of one subarea of Southern Central America, the Rivas region of Pacific Nicaragua. The work gives a detailed analysis of excavations and of artifacts recovered at seven significant prehistoric sites. A critical pioneering effort, the monograph documents cultural changes occurring over a 2,000year time periodchanges in technology, material culture, settlement, subsistence, and sociopolitical organization.
- ISBN10 0889207844
- ISBN13 9780889207844
- Publish Date 1 January 2006 (first published 6 March 1981)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 412
- Language English