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INTRODUCING IZAPA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2019

Robert M. Rosenswig*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222
Julia Guernsey
Affiliation:
Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78705
*
E-mail correspondence to: rrosenswig@albany.edu

Abstract

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 that contribute to our evolving understanding of Izapa during the millennium that stretches from the Middle Formative period through the Middle Classic period (700 b.c.a.d. 600). They serve as a status report on our understanding of the still largely enigmatic ancient kingdom, its regional structure, and connections to contemporaneous Isthmian sites.

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