The notion of interaction between Mesoamerica and Eastern North America has long endured despite the lack of clearly defined pathways through which such ties might have occurred. In 1948, archaeologist Alex Krieger theorized two possible overland interaction routes, one designated the Gilmore Corridor through the interior Gulf Coastal Plain and another across the Southern Plains and through the American Southwest. A review of the current data fails to support the Gilmore Corridor but provides comparatively robust evidence for the alternative route through the Southern Plains. Using archaeological, archaeobotanical, and historical datasets, this paper suggests the Toyah Corridor served as an economic conduit for movement of things and ideas from Mesoamerica through the American Southwest and thence via long-range cultural intermediaries to Eastern North America. Other interaction networks in earlier times and other geographies were likely, but this corridor perhaps presents one of the more substantiated avenues based on the cumulative evidence. The theorized connection reveals economic processes and thereby sets up archaeological expectations for Mesoamerican and Mississippian interaction across the Plains and at either end.

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远距离 Toyah 中间人在远南平原上的中美洲-密西西比州互动

尽管缺乏明确的途径来实现这种联系，但中美洲和北美东部之间互动的概念早已存在。1948 年，考古学家亚历克斯·克里格（Alex Krieger）提出了两条可能的陆上相互作用路线，一条指定了吉尔摩走廊穿过内陆墨西哥湾沿岸平原，另一条指定穿过南部平原和美国西南部。对当前数据的审查未能支持吉尔摩走廊，但为穿越南部平原的替代路线提供了相对有力的证据。使用考古学、考古植物学和历史数据集，这篇论文表明，托亚走廊是从中美洲到美国西南部，然后通过远程文化中介到达北美东部的事物和思想运动的经济渠道。早期和其他地区的其他互动网络是可能的，但这条走廊可能是基于累积证据的更有根据的途径之一。理论上的联系揭示了经济过程，从而为跨越平原和两端的中美洲和密西西比河相互作用建立了考古学预期。