caa a22 4500 388057815 CHVBK 20180307125111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0956536100001814 doi S0956536100001814 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0956536100001814 Punta Canbalam in Context [Elektronische Daten] A peripatetic coastal site in northwest Campeche, Mexico Investigations at Punta Canbalam on the Gulf Coast of Campeche reveal it is probably the largest of several important but underreported trading sites on the pan-Mesoamerican maritime trade route. The coastline has been unstable for the last thousand years, subjecting the site to sea level changes and repeated episodes of beach erosion and redeposition. The relatively dense scatter of temporally mixed, highly weathered sherds and other artifacts on an exceedingly narrow, modern beach indicates that it is all secondarily deposited and that its original location was offshore. An interdisciplinary team is beginning to recognize clues in its environmental and cultural contexts as to where this peripatetic site was originally located and the extent to which it depended upon exchanges of salt, petty commodities from inland, and canoe-borne exotics from afar. This predominantly Terminal Classic and Early Postclassic site likely served as a port of entry for obsidian, jade, fine-paste ceramics, and other goods for the nearby inland city of Chunchucmil. It also probably supplied the interior with marine and estuarine food and ornamental and ritual products in exchange for inland agricultural products and other items. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Dahlin Bruce H. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA Andrews Anthony P. Division of Social Services, New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota, FL 34243, USA Beach Timothy STIA Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA Bezanilla Clara 37 Seymour Buildings, Seymour Place, London W1H 5TR, UK Farrell Patrice Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA Luzzadder-Beach Sheryl Department of Geography and Earth Systems Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA McCormick Valerie Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/1(1998), 1-15 0956-5361 9:1<1 1998 9 ATM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100001814 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100001814 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dahlin Bruce H. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Andrews Anthony P. Division of Social Services, New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota, FL 34243, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beach Timothy STIA Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bezanilla Clara 37 Seymour Buildings, Seymour Place, London W1H 5TR, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Farrell Patrice Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Luzzadder-Beach Sheryl Department of Geography and Earth Systems Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCormick Valerie Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/1(1998), 1-15 0956-5361 9:1<1 1998 9 ATM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge