The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition
42 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA The latter part of the Pleistocene epoch saw the spread of the mammoth-hunting Clovis culture ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 43 not survive in the wild. Independent episodes of domestication ...
44 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Box 1.1 Maize Why was maize so important to the ancient Mesoamericans, and why does it continu ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 45 Figure 1.4 Constricted adze from Caye Coco, Belize. Such tools ...
46 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA on domesticated plants, and villagers began storing food. Archaeologists believe that these ch ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 47 Figure 1.5 Locations of major Formative period sites. The Earl ...
48 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Figure 1.6 Early Formative figurines from Cuauhtemoc in the Soconusco region of coastal Chiapa ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 49 used as burial offerings. In the absence of excavations of hou ...
50 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA as jade figurines and celts have been found (see Figure 14.1 in Chapter 14). Monu- mental arch ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 51 The Olmecs were not the only complex society in Middle Formati ...
52 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA this region, intensification of contact with the San Lorenzo Olmec correlates with the collaps ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 53 center in a neutral location. The hilltop site in the central ...
54 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA in the Isthmian region that had once been home to Olmecs, Late Formative devel- opments includ ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 55 cultures had adopted metalworking, they developed new techniqu ...
56 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Figure 1.8 Temple-pyramid with stucco god masks at the Late Formative Period Mayan town of Cer ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 57 Figure 1.9 Locations of major Classic period, Terminal Classic ...
58 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Figure 1.10 Aerial photo of the Classic-period metropolis of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Courtesy of ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 59 Several lines of evidence point to a powerful government that ...
60 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA known. Even after destruction of the major buildings along the Street of the Dead, a sizable p ...
CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 61 (continued) Box 1.4 Changing Views of Mesoamerican Cities Fort ...
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