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Fire and Salt traces the history of how human activities have helped build the littoral landscape of Pacific coastal southern Mesoamerica over the past five thousand years. Evidence comes from airborne Lidar, surface reconnaissance and excavation within the mangrove-estuary zone, sediment coring, and a chronological framework encompassing nine ceramic complexes extending from Early Formative to Historic times.
In presenting the landscape as it exists today, this volume also describes what may soon be lost. The mangrove forests harbor a record of the human past, a focus of the present volume, but they also shield the coast from storms and tsunamis, provide nurseries for commercially important marine species, and store large amounts of carbon.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Fieldwork on the Proyecto Arqueológico Costa del Soconusco
Chapter 3. Chronology and Demography
Chapter 4. Archaic and Early Formative Niche Construction of the Soconusco Coast
Hector Neff, James T. Daniels, Paul Burger, and Heather Thakar
Chapter 5. Peak Salt: The Evolution of Specialized Salt Production during Middle through Terminal Formative Times
Hector Neff, Paul Burger, and Marx Navarro Castillo
Chapter 6. Early Classic Abandonment, the Evolution of a Mesoamerican Tradeware, and the Enigmatic Early Postclassic Period
Hector Neff, Marx Navarro Castillo, and Sachiko Sakai
Chapter 7. Late Postclassic through Modern Use of the Eastern Soconusco Wetlands
Hector Neff, Janine Gasco, and Marx Navarro Castillo
Chapter 8. Conclusion
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