Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1: Natural Environment and Early Cultures

Robert Wauchope

Published by University of Texas Press 1964

Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1

Natural Environment and Early Cultures

Robert Wauchope
Edited by: Robert C. West

https://doi.org/10.7560/732599

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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 published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). This volume of the Handbook was edited by Dr. Robert C. West (1913–2001), Boyd Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University, an outstanding authority on Latin America. He was formerly cultural geographer for the Smithsonian Institution.

Included in this first volume are chapters written by leading authorities in various fields of the natural and social sciences that are concerned with the natural environment of Middle America, its role in the shaping of Indian cultures, the earliest primitive hunters of this area, the beginnings of agriculture, and the broad patterns of prehistoric civilizations there.

There are articles on the geohistory and paleogeography of Middle America, its surface configuration and associated geology, hydrography, the American Mediterranean, oceanography and marine life along the Pacific coast, weather and climate, natural vegetation, the soils and their relation to the Indian peoples and cultures, fauna , the natural regions of Middle America, the primitive hunters, the food-gathering and incipient agricultural stage of prehistoric Middle America, origins of agriculture there, and the patterns of farming life and civilization.

The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

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Anthropologists, scholars in other fields, librarians, and. the general public will all be well served by this encyclopedic survey. . . . To judge from this first volume the completed handbook will be a major scholarly contribution and an indispensable reference work.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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1. Geohistory and Paleogeography of Middle America Manuel Maldonado-Koerdell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Surface Configuration and Associated Geology of Middle America Robert C. West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. The Hydrography of Middle America Jorge L. Tamayo and Robert C. West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
4. The American Mediterranean Albert Collier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
5. Oceanography and Marine Life along the Pacific Coast Carl L. Hubbs and Gunnar I. Roden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
6. Weather and Climate of Mexico and Central America Jorge A. Vivó Escoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
7. Natural Vegetation of Middle America Philip L. Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
8. The Soils of Middle America and their Relation to Indian Peoples and Cultures Rayfred L. Stevens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
9. Fauna of Middle America L. C. Stuart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
10. The Natural Regions of Middle America Robert C. West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
11. The Primitive Hunters Luís Aveleyra Arroyo de Anda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
12. The Food-gathering and Incipient Agriculture Stage of Prehistoric Middle America Richard S. MacNeish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
13. Origins of Agriculture in Middle America Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Richard S. MacNeish and Gordon R. Willey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
14. The Patterns of Farming Life and Civilization Gordon R. Willey, Gordon F. Ekholm and René F. Millon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	446
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Copyright year: 1964
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 590

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Published: January 7, 2015
ISBN: 9781477306536