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The Second Mammoth and Associated Artifacts at Santa Isabel Iztapan, Mexico*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Luis Aveleyra A. De Anda
Luis Aveleyra A. De Anda*
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional De Antropologia E Historia Mexico, D.F.
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Among the numerous problems still to be resolved in the archaeology of Mexico, one could not find a more captivating, more fundamental, and at the same time, less known one, than the early genesis of the native civilizations of Mesoamerica. Lack of knowledge of preceramic developments, which are the truly formative ones of the high prehispanic cultures, leaves the whole complicated sequence of better-studied civilizations without a real foundation. The investigation of this field requires collaborative research in the geological and paleontological sciences.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , July 1956 , pp. 12 - 28
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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Footnotes

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Based upon Aveleyra's El Segundo Mamut Fósil de Santa Isabel Iztapan, México, y Artefactos Asociados (Publicaciones de la Dirección de Prehistoria, No. 1, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico, 1955). Translated and abridged by Alex D. Krieger. For more extended explanations, and especially for numerous fine photographs of the different stages of excavation, see the original.

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