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Aboriginal Cultural Development in Latin America: An Interpretative Review

by Clifford Evans, Betty J. Meggers

Pages: 174

Contributors: Clifford Evans,Betty J. Meggers

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press

Place of Publication: Washington

Publication Year: 1963

Subjects: Indians--Antiquities,Latin America--Antiquities

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Figures

Preface

Cultural Development in Northern Mexico

References

Cultural Development in Central Mesoamerica

Introduction

References

Cultural Development in Southeastern Mesoamerica

References

Cultural Developmeent in Lower Central America

References

Cultural Development in Colombia

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Cultural Development in Venezuela

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Cultural Development in Ecuador

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Cultural Development in the Central Andes--Peru and Bolivia

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Cultural Development in Northwestern Argentina

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Cultural Development in Brazil

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Cultural Development in Latin America: An Interpretative Overview

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