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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1 - Natural Environment and Early Cultures (Paperback)
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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1 - Natural Environment and Early Cultures (Paperback)
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This is the first volume of the monumental Handbook of Middle
American Indians, a definitive encyclopaedia of the environment,
archaeology, ethnology, social anthropology, ethnohistory,
linguistics, and physical anthropology of the native peoples of
Mexico and Central America. The Handbook was published in
cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane
University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope
(1909-1979). This volume of the Handbook was edited by Dr. Robert
C. West (1913-2001), Boyd Professor of Geography at Louisiana State
University, an outstanding authority on Latin America. He was
formerly cultural geographer for the Smithsonian Institution.
Included in this first volume are chapters written by leading
authorities in various fields of the natural and social sciences
that are concerned with the natural environment of Middle America,
its role in the shaping of Indian cultures, the earliest primitive
hunters of this area, the beginnings of agriculture, and the broad
patterns of prehistoric civilizations there. There are articles on
the geohistory and paleogeography of Middle America, its surface
configuration and associated geology, hydrography, the American
Mediterranean, oceanography and marine life along the Pacific
coast, weather and climate, natural vegetation, the soils and their
relation to the Indian peoples and cultures, fauna , the natural
regions of Middle America, the primitive hunters, the
food-gathering and incipient agricultural stage of prehistoric
Middle America, origins of agriculture there, and the patterns of
farming life and civilization. The Handbook of Middle American
Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research
Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from
the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the
National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
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