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Water Folk: Reconstructing an Ancient Aquatic Lifeway in Michoacán, Western Mexico

Water Folk: Reconstructing an Ancient Aquatic Lifeway in Michoacán, Western Mexico

Williams, Eduardo

Paperback

Series: BAR International, Book 2617

ArchaeologyMexican HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 1407312529
ISBN13: 9781407312521
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
Published: Apr 25 2014
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.35 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English

This study of subsistence activities (fishing, hunting, gathering, and manufacture) in the Cuitzeo and Pátzcuaro lake basins (Michoacán, Western Mexico) underscores the value of ethnoarchaeology as a tool for reconstructing the ancient aquatic lifeway in the territory of the Protohistoric Tarascan state (ca. AD 1450-1530), which flourished in an environment dominated by lakes, rivers, swamps and marshes. Mesoamerica was the only civilization in the ancient world that lacked major domesticated sources of animal protein; therefore, abundant wild aquatic species (fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects and plants, etc.) all played strategic roles in the diet and economy of most Mesoamerican cultures, including the Tarascans.

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