Early agrarian societies in the Basin of Mexico: Challenges and Perspectives

Summary

Over the past three decades, there have been very few studies of the earliest agrarian communities in the Basin of Mexico in comparison with other periods. In this paper, we introduce the symposium with an evaluation of the state of knowledge concerning preceramic, archaic communities up to the Formative period in the Basin of Mexico, with particular emphasis on the dearth of information available concerning paleoenvironment and subsistence. We review some of the recent investigations in the region, especially in the context of "The Development of Agrarian Communities in the Basin of Mexico", and discuss the challenges and future perspectives for studies concerned with this period.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Preceramic and Early Agrarian Communities in the Basin of Mexico: New Perspectives

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