An Archaic Mexican Shellmound and Its Entombed Floors

Klappentext This book presents investigations of several constructed floors! built during the 600 to 800 years of site formation in the Archaic period (ca. 8000-2000 BCE)! the crucial timespan in Mesoamerican prehistory when people were transitioning from full-blown dependency on wild resources to the use of domesticated crops. Zusammenfassung Tlacuachero is the site of a shellmound insouthwest Mexico. Presents investigations of several floors within the site's shell deposits formed over a 600-800 year interval during the Archaic period (ca. 8000-2000 BCE), a crucial timespan in Mesoamerican prehistory when people were transitioning to the use of domesticated crops.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara (EDT) Voorhies
• Assisted by: Barbara Voorhies (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2015
• EAN: 9781938770029
• ISBN: 978-1-938770-02-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Monograph; Monographs; Monographs; Monograph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity