Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction | Larry Steinbrenner
Part 1: Redefining Greater Nicoya
2. Contact-Era Pacific Nicaragua: Indigenous Groups and Their Origins | Larry Steinbrenner
3. Indigenous Peoples of Pacific Nicaragua and Nicoya in the Sixteenth Century: A Historical Approach | Eugenia Ibarra Rojas
4. A Critical Reevaluation of Pacific Nicaragua’s Late Period Chronology Larry Steinbrenner and | Geoffrey G. McCafferty
Part 2: Projects and Surveys
5. The Managua Metropolitan Project: A Retrospective | Frederick W. Lange
6. Twenty Years of Nicaraguan Archaeology: Results of the University of Calgary Projects | Geoffrey G. McCafferty
7. The Development of Social Complexity in the Rivas Region, Pacific Nicaragua | Karen Niemel Garrard
8. Social Practices at La Cascabel, A Village on Culebra Bay, ad 800–1550 | Ana Cristina Aguilar Vega
Part 3: Ceramics and Stone: Material Culture in Pacific Nicaragua
9. Polychrome Potting Traditions of Pacific Nicaragua, ad 800–1300 | Larry Steinbrenner
10. Ceramic Economy and Communities of Practice in Granada and Rivas, ad 1–1300 | Carrie L. Dennett
11. Exploring Technological Modifications: Variation of Non-vessel “Objects” from El Rayo, Nicaragua | Sacha Wilke
12. A Century in Stone: One Hundred Years of Lithic Analyses in Nicaragua | Adam K. Benfer
13. The Development of Nicaraguan Rock Art Research | Suzanne M. Baker
Part 4: Mortuary Practices in Greater Nicoya
14. Raising the Dead: Mortuary Patterns in Pacific Nicaragua | Geoffrey G. McCafferty, Andrea L. Waters-Rist, Sharisse McCafferty, Celise Fricker, and Jessica Manion
15. Osteoarchaeological Markers of Health and Identity at the Site of El Rayo, Nicaragua, ad 550–1200 | Andrea L. Waters-Rist and Geoffrey G. McCafferty
16. Human Bone Artifacts: Ancestor Cults and Human Sacrifice in a Community of Mesoamerican Origin in Culebra Bay, Costa Rica | Anayensy Herrera Villalobos and Felipe Solís Del Vecchio
Part 5: Conclusion
17. Greater Nicoya through the Looking-Glass: Merging Culture History with Social Theory | Alexander Geurds
Index
List of Contributors