Prehistoric Mesoamerica

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• Cave sites in the Tehuacan Valley to the southeast of the Basin of Mexico and in Tamaulipas, far to the north, have produced approximately contem- porary remains in the form of somewhat nondescript collections of scrapers, flakes, and chips. Inasmuch as the rest of the Tehuacan and Tamaulipas sequences show definite and increasing reliance on small animals and plant gathering, MacNeish has suggested that big game hunting as a way of life never existed in the form that it did on the North American Great Plains. Indeed, MacNeish has said that if a man killed a mammoth in central Mexico, he probably never stopped talking about it. The view of Mesoamerican Lithic-stage people as engaging in plant gathering and small animal hunting and only occasionally and opportunistically hunting big game ac... (查看原文)

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• The first is the nature of the differences between the New World and Old World cereal crops. Wheat is nearly as productive in the wild as it is under cultivation and needs little modification to bring into domestication. Second, the larger numbers of animals available for domestication in the Old World apparently took up the slack during the chancy period when the first plant domesticates were being developed. Goats and sheep were domesticated first, and then cattle and pigs; all of them carried considerably more meat per animal than dogs and turkeys, the principal Mesoamerican domesticates. The third factor is the nature of the societies involved. Flannery suggests that due to the general lack of larger domesticable animals in the New World and the general emphasis on gathering, there was... (查看原文)

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