Famine vulnerability in the contact-era basin of mexico: A simulation

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-98

  Whitmore, Thomas M ^a   Williams, Barbara J ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Whitewater at Rock County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL PERIOD; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; FAMINE VULNERABILITY; HISTORICAL STUDY; SIXTEENTH CENTURY; SPANISH CONQUEST;

MEXICO;

EID: 0031662959     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0956536100001863     Document Type: Article

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