R M Rosenswig
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3710 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R M Rosenswig |
| NOMBRES | R M |
| APELLIDO | Rosenswig |
| FIRMA | ROSENSWIG R M |
| AFILIACIONES | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9614-8904 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 466 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology
Many archaeologists do not realize that their commonsense assumptions about what constitutes money naturalize orthodox (neoclassical) economic theory. Rather than the orthodox view of money as primarily a medium of exchange, this paper presents the heterodox claim of money as primarily a unit of account imposed by those with political power. This heterodox understanding casts money as the mechanism at the heart of ancient states’ political econom…
Understanding money; Or, why social and financial accounting should not be conflated
This article defines social and financial money as distinct institutions that account for different realms of value. I present a fundamental dichotomy among economists' where orthodox theory defines money as a medium of exchange whereas heterodox chartalist economists characterize it as a unit of account. I argue that (pre)historical data provides clear evidence in support of the heterodox position. The unit of account function of money is exempl…
Desarrollo derivativo en la arquitectura cacical de Línea Vieja
Este artículo describe dos complejos arquitectónicos vecinos que juntos forman la arquitectura monumental del sitio Anita Grande en la región de Línea Vieja, vertiente Caribe Central de Costa Rica. Proponemos que estos dos complejos reflejan la evolución del estatus cacical de los residentes del sitio. Análisis cerámico y datos radiométricos ubican la construcción monumental en 950-1250 E.C., con evidencias de ocupaciones del sitio en periodos pr…
Archaic Period Lithic Technology, Sedentism, and Subsistence in Northern Belize
Despite the abundance of lithic debitage at preceramic sites in the Maya Lowlands, these data have rarely been studied in detail. We analyzed the chipped chert debitage from Caye Coco and Fred Smith, two Archaic period sites in the Freshwater Creek drainage of northern Belize, to evaluate strategies of lithic raw material procurement, stone tool production, and tool use. The technological and use-wear analyses of the debitage demonstrate that the…
Opinions on the Lowland Maya Late Archaic Period With Some Evidence From Northern Belize
The fourth millennium b.p. in the Maya lowlands provides an interesting case, with mobile, aceramic peoples documented, while ceramic-using villagers lived in other parts of Mesoamerica. Rather than ask why ceramic containers and village life took so long to reach the Maya lowlands, the question can be inverted to posit that a mixed horticultural-foraging adaptation was so effective that it persisted longer than elsewhere. I propose that the so-c…
Early Mesoamerican monumentality
The Low-Density Urban Systems of the Classic Period Maya and Izapa
The peoples of southern Mesoamerica, including the Classic period Maya, are often claimed to exhibit a distinct type of spatial organization relative to contemporary urban systems. Here, we use the settlement scaling framework and properties of settlements recorded in systematic, full-coverage surveys to examine ways in which southern Mesoamerican settlement systems were both similar to and different from contemporary systems. We find that the po…
Chacmools in Costa Rica
Reconstructing Sovereignty on Ancient Mesoamerica's Southern Pacific Coast
The internal control and external sovereignty that define nation-states today has a long (pre)history. Many archaeologists undertheorize sovereignty by only implicitly inferring the sovereign status of the polities they study. Sovereignty also remains insufficiently operationalized in terms of its material remains, especially for those ancient societies without written accounts. During the final centuries before the Common Era, a network of kingd…
Mesoamerica’s Archaic Period
Changing Olmec trade routes understood through Least Cost Path analysis
Burying the Dead during the Maya Postclassic period
Mesoamerica’s Archaic Period
Dating the Izapa Kingdom
I thank my colleagues for their comments, but I disagree with their conclusions
The Izapa Kingdom's Capital
This article presents new settlement survey data from the Izapa center of southern Mesoamerica, a site long known for its corpus of low-relief stelae. These data, which track the changing distribution of population from 1000 BC-AD 100, indicate that the city's population peaked at 5,725 inhabitants. Izapa was the capital of a regional kingdom with more than 40 lower-order monumental centers and a territory that covered at least 450 sq. km. Recent…
The Early Izapa Kingdom
Izapa is famous for its monumental architecture and extensive corpus of carved stelae dated to the Late Formative Guillén phase (300–100 calb.c.). The site was first established, however, as the capital of a kingdom during the second half of the Middle Formative period (750–300 calb.c.). Little is known of the first centuries of the site's occupation or how this early kingdom coalesced with Izapa as its capital. In 2012, the Izapa Regional Settle…
Introducing Izapa
This paper introduces the articles that comprise this Special Issue on Izapa. First, we review early reporting and assessments of Izapa's monuments as well as archaeological investigations undertaken at the site during the twentieth century. Next, we describe more recent developments in interpretation and new archeological excavations and survey data collected during the past two decades. The papers in this Special Issue present new information t…
Lidar reveals the entire kingdom of Izapa during the first millennium BC
The origins of ancient states is an important archaeological research topic that illuminates the precursors of modern nations. Public buildings, as is the case today, created urban settings in which political, administrative and religious functions were undertaken. This investigation of the ancient Mesoamerican kingdom of Izapa reveals a network of urban centres laid out according to shared design principles. While the capital city of Izapa has l…
Modes of Production and Archaeology
Modes of production are used in a variety of ways by authors in this book but all employ the framework as an analytical tool to explore the reproduction of society. Each chapter author provides examples of how one or multiple modes of production (in succession or simultaneously) promotes distinctive questions and new insights about the past. The aim of the volume is not to (re)affirm the value of mode of production analysis to those already convi…
Economic growth in Mesoamerica
Izapa and the Soconusco Region, Mexico, in the First Millennium A.D
We present new regional settlement pattern data from the eastern Soconusco region, Chiapas, Mexico, including a detailed reconstruction of the first millennium A.D. occupation of the site of Izapa. Results from an initial campaign of light detection and ranging (lidar) data acquisition and analysis of systematically collected surface remains document the full extent of the Classic-period occupation of Izapa. These lidar and pedestrian survey data…
Lidar data and the Izapa polity
Is it agriculture yet? Intensified maize-use at 1000 cal BC in the Soconusco and Mesoamerica
A Mosaic of Adaptation
Archaic period settlement and subsistence in the Maya lowlands
Lidar mapping and surface survey of the Izapa state on the tropical piedmont of Chiapas, Mexico
Beyond identifying elites
Preceramic Occupations in Belize
Evidence from preceramic Paleoindian and Archaic time periods in Belize has been recorded over the past quarter of a century by a number of projects. This paper summarizes previously published information and presents new archaeological data in bringing the hunting-and-gathering and itinerant horticultural millennia of this region into a more accurate and comprehensive perspective than has been presented to date. The Paleoindian period includes i…
Sedentism and food production in early complex societies of the Soconusco, Mexico
This paper presents a case study of the relationship between increasing plant use, sedentism and political complexity among societies on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico during the Early and Middle Formative period (1600–800 bce). I argue that each of these variables increased at different paces in the region. Some of the earliest ceramics in Mesoamerica are documented by 1600 bce as is increasingly sedentary village life. During the followin…
Lidar data and the Izapa polity
Archaic period settlement and subsistence in the Maya lowlands
The Low-Density Urban Systems of the Classic Period Maya and Izapa
The peoples of southern Mesoamerica, including the Classic period Maya, are often claimed to exhibit a distinct type of spatial organization relative to contemporary urban systems. Here, we use the settlement scaling framework and properties of settlements recorded in systematic, full-coverage surveys to examine ways in which southern Mesoamerican settlement systems were both similar to and different from contemporary systems. We find that the po…
Materialism, Mode of Production, and a Millennium of Change in Southern Mexico
Is it agriculture yet? Intensified maize-use at 1000 cal BC in the Soconusco and Mesoamerica
Izapa and the Soconusco Region, Mexico, in the First Millennium A.D
We present new regional settlement pattern data from the eastern Soconusco region, Chiapas, Mexico, including a detailed reconstruction of the first millennium A.D. occupation of the site of Izapa. Results from an initial campaign of light detection and ranging (lidar) data acquisition and analysis of systematically collected surface remains document the full extent of the Classic-period occupation of Izapa. These lidar and pedestrian survey data…
A Mosaic of Adaptation
Production Characteristics of Postclassic Maya Pottery from Caye Coco, Northern Belize
This analysis of production variability of Postclassic Maya pottery from consumer contexts at Caye Coco implies that household pottery making varied and that products destined for different social and functional use contexts were made with differing degrees of standardization. New chronological and typological information from the Terminal Classic and Early Postclassic Periods at Caye Coco provide data important to the study of long-term interreg…
Lidar reveals the entire kingdom of Izapa during the first millennium BC
The origins of ancient states is an important archaeological research topic that illuminates the precursors of modern nations. Public buildings, as is the case today, created urban settings in which political, administrative and religious functions were undertaken. This investigation of the ancient Mesoamerican kingdom of Izapa reveals a network of urban centres laid out according to shared design principles. While the capital city of Izapa has l…
Reassessing San Estevan's Role in the Late Formative Political Geography of Northern Belize
We reassess San Estevan's role within the Late Formative period political geography of northern Belize. This medium-sized site has been interpreted as a subsidiary center to Nohmul that ruled the area along with Cerros, Lamanai, and Colha (Scarborough 1991). It has also been suggested that scores of autonomous polities existed in the region at this time (McAnany 1995). We examine these contrasting models in light of our recent excavations in the …
Transformation of the Terminal Classic to Postclassic Architectural Landscape at Caye Coco, Belize
In this paper, we analyze the distribution of Late Postclassic (A.D. 1250–1500) architecture and associated artifacts of the Maya site of Caye Coco, Belize. Artifact density and distribution suggest that different buildings served different functions and reflect a range of domestic and non-domestic activities at the island. An assessment of the labor investment required to build the seventeen structures at Caye Coco provides evidence of the degre…
The Izapa Kingdom's Capital
This article presents new settlement survey data from the Izapa center of southern Mesoamerica, a site long known for its corpus of low-relief stelae. These data, which track the changing distribution of population from 1000 BC-AD 100, indicate that the city's population peaked at 5,725 inhabitants. Izapa was the capital of a regional kingdom with more than 40 lower-order monumental centers and a territory that covered at least 450 sq. km. Recent…
Changing Olmec trade routes understood through Least Cost Path analysis
The Early Izapa Kingdom
Izapa is famous for its monumental architecture and extensive corpus of carved stelae dated to the Late Formative Guillén phase (300–100 calb.c.). The site was first established, however, as the capital of a kingdom during the second half of the Middle Formative period (750–300 calb.c.). Little is known of the first centuries of the site's occupation or how this early kingdom coalesced with Izapa as its capital. In 2012, the Izapa Regional Settle…
Early Mesoamerican Garbage
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology
Many archaeologists do not realize that their commonsense assumptions about what constitutes money naturalize orthodox (neoclassical) economic theory. Rather than the orthodox view of money as primarily a medium of exchange, this paper presents the heterodox claim of money as primarily a unit of account imposed by those with political power. This heterodox understanding casts money as the mechanism at the heart of ancient states’ political econom…
Understanding money; Or, why social and financial accounting should not be conflated
This article defines social and financial money as distinct institutions that account for different realms of value. I present a fundamental dichotomy among economists' where orthodox theory defines money as a medium of exchange whereas heterodox chartalist economists characterize it as a unit of account. I argue that (pre)historical data provides clear evidence in support of the heterodox position. The unit of account function of money is exempl…
Opinions on the Lowland Maya Late Archaic Period With Some Evidence From Northern Belize
The fourth millennium b.p. in the Maya lowlands provides an interesting case, with mobile, aceramic peoples documented, while ceramic-using villagers lived in other parts of Mesoamerica. Rather than ask why ceramic containers and village life took so long to reach the Maya lowlands, the question can be inverted to posit that a mixed horticultural-foraging adaptation was so effective that it persisted longer than elsewhere. I propose that the so-c…
Burying the Dead during the Maya Postclassic period
Prehispanic Settlement in the Cuauhtémoc Region of the Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico
This paper presents the results of a 28 sq km, 100% coverage settlement survey undertaken on the Pacific coast of southern Chiapas, Mexico in a region known since Aztec times as the Soconusco. The Soconusco has always been one of the richest agricultural regions in Mesoamerica, and the survey zone is now covered by industrial-scale fruit cultivation. This agricultural practice results in a grid of trenches and allows a high level of confidence in…
Reconstructing Sovereignty on Ancient Mesoamerica's Southern Pacific Coast
The internal control and external sovereignty that define nation-states today has a long (pre)history. Many archaeologists undertheorize sovereignty by only implicitly inferring the sovereign status of the polities they study. Sovereignty also remains insufficiently operationalized in terms of its material remains, especially for those ancient societies without written accounts. During the final centuries before the Common Era, a network of kingd…
Some Political Processes of Ranked Societies
Transformation of the Terminal Classic to Postclassic Architectural Landscape at Caye Coco, Belize
In this paper, we analyze the distribution of Late Postclassic (A.D. 1250–1500) architecture and associated artifacts of the Maya site of Caye Coco, Belize. Artifact density and distribution suggest that different buildings served different functions and reflect a range of domestic and non-domestic activities at the island. An assessment of the labor investment required to build the seventeen structures at Caye Coco provides evidence of the degre…
Production Characteristics of Postclassic Maya Pottery from Caye Coco, Northern Belize
This analysis of production variability of Postclassic Maya pottery from consumer contexts at Caye Coco implies that household pottery making varied and that products destined for different social and functional use contexts were made with differing degrees of standardization. New chronological and typological information from the Terminal Classic and Early Postclassic Periods at Caye Coco provide data important to the study of long-term interreg…
Preceramic Occupations in Belize
Evidence from preceramic Paleoindian and Archaic time periods in Belize has been recorded over the past quarter of a century by a number of projects. This paper summarizes previously published information and presents new archaeological data in bringing the hunting-and-gathering and itinerant horticultural millennia of this region into a more accurate and comprehensive perspective than has been presented to date. The Paleoindian period includes i…
Sedentism and food production in early complex societies of the Soconusco, Mexico
This paper presents a case study of the relationship between increasing plant use, sedentism and political complexity among societies on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico during the Early and Middle Formative period (1600–800 bce). I argue that each of these variables increased at different paces in the region. Some of the earliest ceramics in Mesoamerica are documented by 1600 bce as is increasingly sedentary village life. During the followin…
Beyond identifying elites
Prehispanic Settlement in the Cuauhtémoc Region of the Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico
This paper presents the results of a 28 sq km, 100% coverage settlement survey undertaken on the Pacific coast of southern Chiapas, Mexico in a region known since Aztec times as the Soconusco. The Soconusco has always been one of the richest agricultural regions in Mesoamerica, and the survey zone is now covered by industrial-scale fruit cultivation. This agricultural practice results in a grid of trenches and allows a high level of confidence in…
Reassessing San Estevan's Role in the Late Formative Political Geography of Northern Belize
We reassess San Estevan's role within the Late Formative period political geography of northern Belize. This medium-sized site has been interpreted as a subsidiary center to Nohmul that ruled the area along with Cerros, Lamanai, and Colha (Scarborough 1991). It has also been suggested that scores of autonomous polities existed in the region at this time (McAnany 1995). We examine these contrasting models in light of our recent excavations in the …
Chocolate in Mesoamerica
Early Mesoamerican Garbage
The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient Maya City - by Clancy, Flora Simmons
Materialism, Mode of Production, and a Millennium of Change in Southern Mexico
The Southern Pacific Coastal Region of Mesoamerica
This article reviews archaeological evidence of the Olmec, Teotihuacan, and Aztec horizons in the Southern Pacific Coastal Region (SPCR). It also presents what is known of a system of emergent urban centers and “Izapan-style” iconography that unite the SPCR as a discrete region in its own right during the Late Formative period. It adopts macro-temporal and macro-spatial frameworks consistent with a world-systems perspective, which allows for synt…
Lidar mapping and surface survey of the Izapa state on the tropical piedmont of Chiapas, Mexico
Archaic period settlement and subsistence in the Maya lowlands
A Mosaic of Adaptation
Lidar data and the Izapa polity
Is it agriculture yet? Intensified maize-use at 1000 cal BC in the Soconusco and Mesoamerica
Economic growth in Mesoamerica
Izapa and the Soconusco Region, Mexico, in the First Millennium A.D
We present new regional settlement pattern data from the eastern Soconusco region, Chiapas, Mexico, including a detailed reconstruction of the first millennium A.D. occupation of the site of Izapa. Results from an initial campaign of light detection and ranging (lidar) data acquisition and analysis of systematically collected surface remains document the full extent of the Classic-period occupation of Izapa. These lidar and pedestrian survey data…
Modes of Production and Archaeology
Modes of production are used in a variety of ways by authors in this book but all employ the framework as an analytical tool to explore the reproduction of society. Each chapter author provides examples of how one or multiple modes of production (in succession or simultaneously) promotes distinctive questions and new insights about the past. The aim of the volume is not to (re)affirm the value of mode of production analysis to those already convi…
The Early Izapa Kingdom
Izapa is famous for its monumental architecture and extensive corpus of carved stelae dated to the Late Formative Guillén phase (300–100 calb.c.). The site was first established, however, as the capital of a kingdom during the second half of the Middle Formative period (750–300 calb.c.). Little is known of the first centuries of the site's occupation or how this early kingdom coalesced with Izapa as its capital. In 2012, the Izapa Regional Settle…
Introducing Izapa
This paper introduces the articles that comprise this Special Issue on Izapa. First, we review early reporting and assessments of Izapa's monuments as well as archaeological investigations undertaken at the site during the twentieth century. Next, we describe more recent developments in interpretation and new archeological excavations and survey data collected during the past two decades. The papers in this Special Issue present new information t…
Lidar reveals the entire kingdom of Izapa during the first millennium BC
The origins of ancient states is an important archaeological research topic that illuminates the precursors of modern nations. Public buildings, as is the case today, created urban settings in which political, administrative and religious functions were undertaken. This investigation of the ancient Mesoamerican kingdom of Izapa reveals a network of urban centres laid out according to shared design principles. While the capital city of Izapa has l…
Mesoamerica’s Archaic Period
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