Ancient Mexico, an overview

by Jaime Litvak King

The traveler en route to Mexico for the first time or the beginning student of Mesoamerican archaeology, dazzled by the varied reminders of exotic extinct cultures that dot the map, will welcome this engaging introduction to Mexico before the Spanish conquest. The author, a leading Mexican archaeologist, guides the novice reader from the arrival of man in the New World through the thousands of years during which society evolved from small groups of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826308163
• ISBN13: 9780826308160
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 134 Pages

Customer Reviews

Ancient Mexico, an overview

I bought this book to bring along with me on my trip to Cozumel last month, and while I found this book informative, it seemed to be written for a more juvenille audience. It did make for good light reading at the beach, though.