Incluye bibliografías e índice.

Part I. Deep time and broad brush : waves of influence - maritime contacts along the Pacific coast / Christopher S. Beekman and Colin McEwan -- The effects of intra- and inter-annual wind and current variation on sailing raft travel along the Pacific coast of the Americas / Richard Callaghan, Alvaro Montenegro and Scott M. Fitzpatrick -- Tracing the movement of ancient cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in the Americas : new approaches / Sonia Zarrillo and Michael Blake -- Part II. Early versus late networks along two key coastlines : Landfalls, sunbursts, and the Capacha problem : a case for Pacific coastal interaction in Early Formative Period Mesoamerica / Guy David Hepp -- Our mother the sea: the Pacific coastal exchange network of Late Postclassic Mexico / John M. D. Pohl and Michael D. Mathiowetz -- "Global culture" and political authority on the Central American coast in the Late Preclassic (300 BCE-300 CE) / Rebecca R. Mendelsohn -- Trading in the sixteenth century : Chibchan "rich men" and Mesoamericans in southern Central America, 800-1600 CE / Eugenia Ibarra Rojas -- Part III. Point-to-point contacts between Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Mexico : Archaeological evidence for long-distance maritime contacts between the Tesoro/Comala/Armería phases, West Mexico, and the Jama-Coaque tradition, coastal Ecuador / James A. Zeidler, José Carlos Beltrán Medina -- Evaluating Pre-Columbian contact between Ecuador and Costa Rica: a ceramic approach / Maria Masucci and John W. Hoopes -- The craft, use, and distribution of axe-monies in Mesoamerica / Kim Cullen Cobb, Christopher S. Beekman, Emily Kaplan and Thomas Lam -- Part IV. The long reach of spondylus : Spondylus as a driver of interregional exchange : mapping recent ecological research on spondylus to inform the model / Benjamin Carter -- Auditory exostoses and spondylus diving in ancient Ecuador / Douglas H. Ubelaker, Yaohan Wu and James A. Zeidler -- Spondylus and its counterparts in Mesoamerica: affinities and oppositions / Christopher S. Beekman -- The origins of Manteño sailing craft and trade on the coast of Ecuador : the view from Salango / Richard Lunniss -- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador: an oceanic sanctuary from circa 2000 BCE to 1531 CE / Colin McEwan and Richard Lunniss -- Discussion: Understanding emerging connections in the Pre-Columbian Americas : communities and networks of practice / Rosemary A. Joyce.