Title: El pasado indígena
First published: 2001
Description: "Divides indigenous peoples into three major units: 1) 'Aridamérica' (including central and southern California, the Sonora coast, the Great Basin of Nevada, Utah, and northwestern Arizona, the Apache area, a small part of southern Texas, and a large portion of northern Mexico), 2) 'Oasisamérica' (covering parts of northern Mexico, southeastern California, all of Arizona, almost all of Utah, more than half of New Mexico, and the southwestern corner of Colorado); and 3) 'Mesoamérica' (defined, in part, as taking in the peoples of 16 linguistic families:  Hokano-coahuilteca, Chinanteca, Otopame, Oaxaqueña, Mangueña, Huave, Tlapaneca, Totonaca, Mixe, Maya, Yutoazteca, Tarasca, Cuitlateca, Lenca, Xinca, and Misumalpa). Proceeds with an overview of the Mesoamerican preclassic, classic, epiclassic, and postclassic periods"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Antiquities, Indians of Mexico, Indios de México, Arqueología, History - General History, Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities, Mexico -- Antiquities, Indians of mexico--antiquities, History of specific racial & ethnic groups, Mexico - History, Native Americans - History, History, Mexico, History: World, Latin America - Mexico, Native American, Indians of mexico, antiquities, Mexico, antiquities, Historia
Places: Mexico, Latin America, South America, México
Time periods: Hasta 1519, To 1519
LC classification: F1219 .L85813 2001