The Cerro Jazmín Archaeological Project: Investigating prehispanic urbanism and its environmental impact in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico

Journal of Field Archaeology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-99

  Pérez Rodríguez, Verónica ^a   Anderson, Kirk C ^a   Neff, Margaret K ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Environmental degradation; Landscape; Mesoamerica; Terraces; Urbanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958704988     PISSN: 00934690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/009346911X12991472411321     Document Type: Article

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