MULTIDIRECTIONAL INTERPOLATION OF LIDAR DATA FROM SOUTHERN VERACRUZ, MEXICO: IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY OLMEC SUBSISTENCE.
From their beginnings some 4,000 years ago to their decadence around 400 b.c. , the Olmec people achieved a high level of sociopolitical complexity and dominated their native geographic territory, the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico. The first Olmec capital of San Lorenzo, Veracruz, was the only site...
| Publicado en: | Ancient Mesoamerica Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 385 - 399 |
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