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Aboriginal Cultural Development in Latin America: An Interpretative Review

by Clifford Evans, Betty J. Meggers. 174 pgs.

Contributors:

   Clifford Evans, Betty J. Meggers

Publisher:

   Smithsonian Institution Press

Place of Publication:

  Washington  

Publication Year:

  1963

Subjects:

Indians--Antiquities, Latin America--Antiquities

	CONTENTS
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	Preface	v
	Cultural development in northern Mexico, by Charles C. Di Peso	1
	Cultural development in central Mesoamerica, by Román Piña Chán	17
	Cultural development in southeastern Mesaomerica, by Michael D. Coe	27
	Cultural development in lower Central America, by Claude F. Baudez	45
	Cultural development in Colombia, by Carlos Angulo Valdés	55
	Cultural development in Venezuela, by Mario Sanoja	67
	Cultural development in Ecuador, by Emilio Estrada and Clifford Evans	77
	Cultural development in the Central Andes--Peru and Bolivia, by Alfred Kidder , Luis G. Lumbreras S. , and David B. Smith	89
	Cultural development in northwestern Argentina, by Alberto Rex Gonzalez	103
	Cultural development in Brazil, by Fernando Altenfelder Silva and Betty J. Meggers	119
	Cultural development in Latin America: An interpretative overview, by Betty J. Meggers	131
	Appendix (tables 1 and 2)	146
1.	Mexico and Central America: political and geographical designations.
2.	Chronological sequences in northern Mexico.
3.	Mexico and Central America: archeological sites.
4.	Chronological sequences in central Mesoamerica.
5.	Chronological sequences in southeastern Mesoamerica.
6.	Chronological sequences in lower Central America.
7.	Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela: political and geographical designations and archeological complexes.
8.	Chronological sequences in Colombia.
9.	Chronological sequences in Venezula.
10.	Chronological sequences in Ecuador.
11.	Peru and Bolivia: archeological sites and geographical features.
12.	Chronological sequences in the Central Andes.
13.	Northwestern Argentina and northern Chile: political and geographical designations and archeological sites.
14.	Chronological sequences in northern Chile and northwestern Argentina.
15.	Brazil: political and geographical designations and archeological sites and complexes.
16.	Chronological sequences in Brazil. Page
17.	Comparative antiquity of selected pottery traits suggesting direct contact by sea between Ecuador and central Mesoamerica around 1200 B.C.	134
18.	Major habitat zones in Latin America	136
19.	Relative antiquity of selected pottery traits suggesting direct contact by sea between central Mexico and Ecuador around 500 B.C.	138
20.	Relative antiquity of selected traits suggesting maintenance of direct contact between Mesoamerica and northwestern South America after the beginning of the Christian era	139

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