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The rise of sedentary lifeessay 1981 • Stark, Barbara L.
Lowland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Stark constructs models and examines the archaeological data available in 1981 to explain the appearance of "cultivation-domestication" and then sedentary farming in Mesoamerica. She begins by summarizing prehistory from 14,000 B.C. to 2,500 B.C. as ...