Author : Carroll L. Riley,Basil Calvin Hedrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012843036
Across the Chichimec Sea by Carroll L. Riley,Basil Calvin Hedrick Pdf
TheChichimec Sea is a metaphorical term for that large area of mountain, desert, and desiccated lake bed that covers much of northern Mexico and parts of the southwestern United States. Aboriginally--indeed, well into historic times--this large area was inhabited by diverse bands of Indians who had in common mainly the fact that they shared neither in the complex civilization of Mesoamerica nor the sub-Mesoamerican cultures of the Greater Southwest. This comprehensive and unified volume of original essays deals with the complex problems of interaction--across and around the Chichimec Sea--between Mesoamerica and the Southwest. The twenty contributions to this volume, by anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, ethnohistorians, and ethnobotanists, all deal with diverse aspects of the problem of Mesoamerican-Southwest contacts.