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Preceramic Mesoamerica delivers cutting-edge research on the Mesoamerican Paleoindian and Archaic periods. Chapters address a series of fundamental questions in American archaeology including the peopling of the Americas, human adaptations to late glacial landscapes, the Neolithic transition and the...

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Other Authors: Lohse, Jon C., 1968- (Editor), Borejsza, Aleksander, 1974- (Editor), Joyce, Arthur A. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
Subjects:
Indians of Mexico > Antiquities.
Indians of Central America > Antiquities.
Mexico > Antiquities.
Central America > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • When is a Mesoamerican? Pleistocene origins of the Mesoamerican tradition / Jon C. Lohse
  • Empty gourds make the most noise? Theories and data in the study of the Archaic period in Mesoamerica / Aleksander Borejsza
  • Tales of the terminal Pleistocene : Clovis in Northern Mexico and the first Mesoamericans / Guadalupe Sanchez and John Carpenter
  • La Cueva de los Hacheros : an early habitation site in Michoacan, Mexico / José Luis Punzo Díaz and Dante Bernardo Martínez
  • Yuzanú 50 : an ephemeral camp of the Younger Dryas in the Mixteca Alta / Jon C. Lohse, Aleksander Borejsza, and Arthur A. Joyce
  • Paleoindian sites from Central Mexico : paleoenvironment and dating / Silvia Gonzalez, David Huddart, Emma Toole, Isabel Israde Alcantara, and Gabriela Dominguez Vasquez
  • Sitio Chivacabe : an early Paleoindian site in Western Highland Guatemala / Jon C. Lohse, David M. Yelacic, and Charles D. Frederick
  • The Paleoindian to Archaic transition in Central America : Esperanza Phase projectile points recovered at the El Gigante Rockshelter site, Honduras / Harry B. Iceland and Kenneth G. Hirth
  • The Lacustrine preceramic cultures in the Basin of Mexico : recent contributions / Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa, Emily McClung de Tapia, and Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales
  • The preceramic in Oaxaca / Marcus Winter and Teresa Alarcón
  • Preceramic occupations in North-Central and Western Mexico : a regional perspective / Brigitte Faugère
  • Las Estacas : an early Archaic site in Morelos / Aleksander Borejsza, Luis Morett Alatorre, and Jon C. Lohse
  • Preceramic lifeways on the Mesoamerican South Pacific Coast / Barbara Voorhies and Douglas J. Kennett
  • Wetland villages in Soconusco, 6000-2000 BC : a new interpretation of Archaic Shell Mounds / John E. Clark and John G. Hodgson
  • Yuzanú 36 : a Late Archaic site in the Mixteca Alta / Aleksander Borejsza, Arthur A. Joyce, Jon C. Lohse, and Isabel Rodríguez López
  • The end of the Archaic in the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica : a tipping point in the local trajectory toward agricultural village life / Richard G. Lesure, R. J. Sinensky, and Thomas Wake
  • Sourcing preceramic obsidian from Las Estacas, Morelos, and Yuzanú 36, Oaxaca in the context of early Mesoamerican lithic procurement patterns / Arthur A. Joyce, Aleksander Borejsza, Jon C. Lohse, Luis Morett Alatorre, and Brendan Nash
  • Preceramic archaeology in Mesoamerica : recent developments and future directions / Arthur A. Joyce.