Mexico’s Indigenous Past

Description

Authors: Austin, Alfredo López and Luján, Leonardo López

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Pub Date: 2001

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks tears, bends or folds.  One small bump to upper front cover corner at spine head.  One approx. 1/4″ split (?) near spine foot.  Light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Volume 240 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series.  Originally published in Spanish in 1996, as El Pasado Indígena.  Three cultural  “superareas”–Aridamerica, Oasisamerica, and Mesoamerica–Aridamerica–states bordering the Rio Grande, separated by Oasisamerica, continuing to the north and west, including the Baja Peninsula; Oasisamerica–centered in the modern Mexican states of Durango, Sinaloa, Zacatecas and Nayarit and continuing north into Arizona, New Mexico and south Texas; and Mesoamerica–the southern half of Mexico extending almost to Panama.  It seems counterintuitive to me, but it works for the authors.  From 34,000 years in the past through the arrival of the Spanish.