Complex sentence: Lumholtz was one of the first to describe artifacts from the ancient shaft tomb and the Tarascan cultures, and he also described archaeological sites, as well as the flora and fauna, of the northern Sierra Madre region called the "gran Chichimeca".
Split into simpler sentences: Lumholtz was one of the first to describe artifacts from the ancient shaft tomb and the Tarascan cultures. He described archaeological sites, as well as the flora and fauna, of the northern Sierra Madre region called the "gran Chichimeca".