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Mexico’s Indigenous Past
By Alfredo Lopez Austin, Leonardo Lopez Lujan
This illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mexico’s precolonial past.
Tracing the large social transformations that took place from the earliest hunter-gatherer times to the post-classics states, the authors describe the ties between the three super-areas of ancient Mexico, which stretched from present-day Costa Rica to what is now the southwestern United States. According to the authors, these super-areas--Mesoamerica, Aridamerica, and Oasisamerica--cannot be viewed as independent entities. Instead, they must be considered as a whole to understand the complex reality of Mexico’s past and possible visions of Mexico’s future.
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