Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1 : : Natural Environment and Early Cultures / / Robert Wauchope; ed. by Robert C. West.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wauchope, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Aveleyra Arroyo de Anda, Luís,; Collier, Albert,; Ekholm, Gordon F.,; Hubbs, Carl L.,; MacNeish, Richard S.,; Maldonado-Koerdell, Manuel,; Mangelsdorf, Paul C.,; Millon, René F.,; Roden, Gunnar I.,; Stevens, Rayfred L.,; Stuart, L. C.,; Tamayo, Jorge L.,; Vivó Escoto, Jorge A.,; Wagner, Philip L.,; West, Robert C.,; Willey, Gordon R.,
• HerausgeberIn: West, Robert C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1964
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (590 p.)

This is the first volume of the monumental Handbook of Middle American Indians, a definitive encyclopaedia of the environment, archaeology, ethnology, social anthropology, ethnohistory, linguistics, and physical anthropology of the native peoples of Mexico and Central America. The Handbook was publi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• 1. Geohistory and Paleogeography of Middle America
• 2. Surface Configuration and Associated Geology of Middle America
• 3. The Hydrography of Middle America
• 4. The American Mediterranean
• 5. Oceanography and Marine Life along the Pacific Coast
• 6. Weather and Climate of Mexico and Central America
• 7. Natural Vegetation of Middle America
• 8. The Soils of Middle America and their Relation to Indian Peoples and Cultures
• 9. Fauna of Middle America
• 10. The Natural Regions of Middle America
• 11. The Primitive Hunters
• 12. The Food-gathering and Incipient Agriculture Stage of Prehistoric Middle America
• 13. Origins of Agriculture in Middle America
• 14. The Patterns of Farming Life and Civilization
• References
• Index