Pacific Latin America in Prehistory: The Evolution of Archaic and Formative Cultures Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction to the Archaeology of Pacific Latin America	3
2	The Marismas Nacionales Project, Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico	13
3	On the Origin, Evolution, and Dispersal of Maize	25
4	Late Archaic Period Coastal Collectors in Southern Mesoamerica: The Chantuto People Revisited	39
5	The Emergence of Hereditary Inequality: The Case of Pacific Coastal Chiapas, Mexico	55
6	Early Formative Societies in Guatemala and El Salvador	75
7	Economic Patterns in the Development of Complex Society in Pacific Guatemala	89
8	Precolumbian Fishing on the Pacific Coast of Panama	103
9	The Origins and Development of Food Production in Pacific Panama	123
10	Wetlands as Resource Concentrations in Southwestern Ecuador	137
11	Early Formative Societies in the Tropical Lowlands of Western Ecuador: a View from the Valdivia Valley	149
12	Agricultural Evolution and the Emergence of Formative Societies in Ecuador	161
13	Andean Coastal Adaptations: Uniformitarianism and Multilinear Evolution	171
14	The Development of Agriculture and the Emergence of Formative Civilization in the Central Andes	181
15	Archaic Period Maritime Adaptations in Peru	189
16	Archaic Adaptation on the South-Central Andean Coast	199
17	The Late Preceramic-Early Formative Transition on the South-Central Andean Littoral	213
	Contributors	223