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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- 22 Towards a Unified Theory for Pacific Colonization, Exchange, and Social Complexity
- 23 The Evolution of China’s Political Economy of the Sea, 960 ce–1900 ce
- 24 China and the Sea in Literature and (Mis)Perception, 1644–1839
- 25 Pacific History Viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The Eastern Archipelago of Southeast Asia and the Sea in the Early Modern Period 1400–1830s
- 26 The Maritime Cultures of the Northwest Pacific Seaboard of the Americas
- 27 Mesoamerican–South American Pre-Columbian Pacific Contacts: Evidence, Objects, and Traditions, 1500 bce–1532 ce
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
27 - Mesoamerican–South American Pre-Columbian Pacific Contacts: Evidence, Objects, and Traditions, 1500 bce–1532 ce
from Part V - The Evolution of Pacific Communities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- 22 Towards a Unified Theory for Pacific Colonization, Exchange, and Social Complexity
- 23 The Evolution of China’s Political Economy of the Sea, 960 ce–1900 ce
- 24 China and the Sea in Literature and (Mis)Perception, 1644–1839
- 25 Pacific History Viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The Eastern Archipelago of Southeast Asia and the Sea in the Early Modern Period 1400–1830s
- 26 The Maritime Cultures of the Northwest Pacific Seaboard of the Americas
- 27 Mesoamerican–South American Pre-Columbian Pacific Contacts: Evidence, Objects, and Traditions, 1500 bce–1532 ce
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
Summary
Long-distance oceanic contacts and trade along the Pacific coast, between Mesoamerica and northern South America, are increasingly believed in academia to have taken place during pre-Hispanic times. These contacts comprised widespread exchange instances enabled by a sailing tradition resulting from the existence of vessels able to travel long distances. Amongst the evidence for this sailing tradition we can find valuable trading objects, comparable cultural practices, the use of ‘axe-monies’, and the practice of similar modes of metallurgy. Elements for these contacts are also described in certain sixteenth-century Spanish chronicles, as discussed in this chapter, which match the archaeological evidence reported herein.
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 613 - 632Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023