An early mesoamerican archipelago of complexity

Early Mesoamerican Social Transformations: Archaic and Formative Lifeways in the Soconusco Region

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 242-271

  Rosenswig, Robert M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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