First Season's Archaeological Work at Campana San Andres, El Salvador

1940 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 712-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Ries
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
San Andres

scholarly journals Human responses to the Ilopango Tierra Blanca Joven eruption: excavations at San Andrés, El Salvador

Antiquity ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Akira Ichikawa
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Research Theme ◽  
Political Roles ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
Radiocarbon Data ◽  
The Face ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Energetic Analysis ◽  
San Andres

Human responses to catastrophic natural events form an important research theme in archaeology. Using excavation and radiocarbon data, this article investigates the socio-cultural impact of the mid-first-millennium AD Tierra Blanca Joven eruption at San Andrés, El Salvador. The data, along with an architectural energetic analysis of the Campana structure at San Andrés, indicate that survivors and/or re-settlers made considerable efforts to construct monumental public buildings immediately following the eruption, using large quantities of volcanic tephra as construction material. Such re-building played important religious, social and political roles in human responses to the eruption. The study contributes to discussions about human creativity, adaptation and resilience in the face of abrupt environmental change.

scholarly journals Monumental Structures and Volcanic Activities: Excavating the Campana at San Andrés in the Zapotitán Valley, El Salvador

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Akira Ichikawa
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Volcanic Material ◽  
Communal Memory ◽  
San Andres

This article presents stratigraphic data and radiocarbon dates combined with Bayesian modeling from San Andrés in the Zapotitán Valley, El Salvador, focusing on the Campana Structure, the largest and longest-used monumental structure at the site. These data refine the regional chronology of the valley and provide insights into the emergence, development, and abandonment of this pivotal center in southeastern Mesoamerica and its potential links to three related volcanic eruptions: Ilopango, Loma Caldera, and El Boquerón. These distinct volcanic events had pronounced effects on local people who innovated new monumental construction projects and used new volcanic debris as construction material after major eruptions. It is suggested that these monumental public building projects played an important role in the post-disaster recovery of societies by helping foster a sense of corporate identity. The use of volcanic material in constructions at San Andrés and the building of these massive structures may also have helped keep these events alive in the communal memory.

Occurrence of the genus Actus (Mononchida: Mylonchulidae) in Vietnam

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-269
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Thanh Tam
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Type Population ◽  
San Andres ◽  
First Time ◽  
Quang Ninh

Two species of Actus, A. conoidus and A. salvadoricus, are recorded, described and illustrated for the first time from Vietnam. Actus conoidus was collected from Bach Long Vi Island, Quang Ninh Province; its measurements and features corresponded well with the type population from Manipur, India. Actus salvadoricus was found in the Na Hang preservation area, Tuyen Quang Province; its measurements and morphological features corresponded well with the type population from Ilopango, San Andres, Sonsonate and El Recreo, El Salvador, as well as those from Okinawa, Japan.   Citation: Vu Thi Thanh Tam, 2017. Occurrence of the genus Actus (Mononchida: Mylonchulidae) in Vietnam. Tap chi Sinh hoc, 39(3): 264-269. DOI: 10.15625/0866-7160/v39n3.9269. *Corresponding author: [email protected] Received 2 March 2017, accepted 20 August 2017 

scholarly journals Conocimiento de la flora y fauna predominante en el sitio prehispánico de San Andrés, valle de Zapotitán, departamento de La Libertad

Entorno ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 142-150
Author(s):  
Jenny Elizabeth Menjívar ◽  
Stephanie Karina Aguilar Alvarado ◽  
Gabriel Elimelek Lozano Astorga
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
San Andres

En El Salvador existen escasas investigaciones sobre los recursos naturales y el rescate histórico de los diferentes usos de especies de la flora y la fauna que acompañaron la vida de las comunidades en sitios prehispánicos. Los escenarios sin duda han sido modificados a través de la historia. Ante esto surge la gran necesidad de sentar las bases sobre el estudio de la botánica y zoología aplicada a la Arqueología. Es por ello que se ha realizado una consulta bibliográfica sobre el sitio arqueológico San Andrés, a fin de brindar a la población salvadoreña datos interesantes sobre la arqueobotánica y arqueozoología. Para obtener información reciente y profundizar sobre la riqueza de este sitio se realizaron viajes de campo y así recabar información de los componentes florísticos y faunísticos de la actualidad y estudiar el museo del sitio para identificar elementos fito y zoomorfos.Entorno, octubre 2017, número 64: 142-150

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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