Early Mesoamerican Social Transformations: Archaic and Formative Lifeways in the Soconusco Region

Contents\nContributors\nAcknowledgments\nONE: Early Social Transformations in the Soconusco\nPART ONE. Archaic to Formative. Transformations in Subsistence\nTWO. A Gender- Based Model for Changes in Subsistence and Mobility During the Terminal Late Archaic Period on the Coast of Chiapas, Mexico\nTHREE. Evidence for the Diversity of Late Archaic and Early Formative Plant Use in the Soconusco Region of Mexico and Guatemala\nFOUR. Archaic to Formative in Soconusco: The adaptive and organizational transformation\nPART TWO. Emergent Complexity. The Archaeological Records of Early Political Centers\nFIVE. Building History in Domestic and Public Space at Paso de la Amada: An examination of mounds 6 and 7\nSIX Paso de la Amada as a Ceremonial Center\nSEVEN. A History of Disaster and Cultural Change in the Coatán River Drainage of the Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico\nEIGHT. La Blanca and the Soconusco Middle Formative\nPART THREE. Beyond the Individual Study Area. Grappling With Issues of Scale\nNINE. Early Formative Transitions in Settlement and Subsistence at Chiquiuitan, Guatemala\nTEN. Jocotal Settlement Patterns, Salt Production, and Pacifi c Coast Interactions\nELEVEN. An Early Mesoamerican Archipelago of Complexity\nTWELVE. Concluding Thoughts: Macroregional synthesis in the archaeology of early mesoamerica\nIndex