from Part V - The Evolution of Pacific Communities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
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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