Interaction Between the Basin of Mexico and West Mexico In the Prehispanic Era

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 1" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Nearly fifty years ago Paul Tolstoy and David Grove argued that a major component of the so-called Tlatilco complex was West Mexican in origin, raising awareness of substantial interaction between the Basin of Mexico and an area then considered largely peripheral to Mesoamerica. Since that time investigations in both the Basin and various parts of West Mexico have uncovered evidence of systematic interaction between the two areas throughout prehistory. Such interaction appears to have been highly variable in terms of its nature and the specific areas of West Mexico that were involved. This paper reviews the evidence from a diachronic perspective and offers explanatory models for some of the mechanisms of interaction that may have been involved.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 1   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23535