Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica

by Clifford T. Brown and Walter R.T. Witschey

Mesoamerica is one of six major areas of the world where humans independently changed their culture from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle into settled communities, cities, and civilization. In addition to China (twice), the Indus Valley, the Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia, Egypt, and Peru, Mesoamerica was home to exciting and irreversible changes in human culture called the "Neolithic Revolution." The changes included domestication of plants...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081087167X
• ISBN13: 9780810871670
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"