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Preceramic Mesoamerica: Chronology, Culture, and Climate (2016)
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Recent and ongoing investigations in Mesoamerica are showing how different regions followed different developmental trajectories leading up to the adoption of ceramic technologies and sedentary lifestyles. This threshold, which typically defines the end of the Archaic period, was reached at different points in time anywhere between about 1800 and 900 BC. These multiple preceramic adaptations seemingly imply that Mesoamerican cultural diversity that marks Formative and later periods had its basis...