Handbook of Middle American Indians: Natural environment and early cultures, R. C. West, vol. editorRobert Wauchope University of Texas Press, 1964 - Indians of Central America |
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Page 72
... Yucatan Peninsula is charac- terized by a karstic surface . In its northern part there are no surface streams , for rain- water sinks quickly through the porous rock to form underground channels . The surface is pitted with hundreds of ...
... Yucatan Peninsula is charac- terized by a karstic surface . In its northern part there are no surface streams , for rain- water sinks quickly through the porous rock to form underground channels . The surface is pitted with hundreds of ...
Page 73
... Yucatan Peninsula have supplied both the ancient Maya and their modern de- scendents with various useful materials . Chert and flint in the form of hard siliceous nodules found as accumulations in lime- stone were used anciently for ...
... Yucatan Peninsula have supplied both the ancient Maya and their modern de- scendents with various useful materials . Chert and flint in the form of hard siliceous nodules found as accumulations in lime- stone were used anciently for ...
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... Yucatan , north & west Greater Antilles Yucatan , north & west Greater Antilles Yucatan Greater Antilles Yucatan Greater Antilles Yucatan Greater Antilles Greater Antilles Greater Antilles Greater Antilles Yucatan Yucatan Yucatan 1The ...
... Yucatan , north & west Greater Antilles Yucatan , north & west Greater Antilles Yucatan Greater Antilles Yucatan Greater Antilles Yucatan Greater Antilles Greater Antilles Greater Antilles Greater Antilles Yucatan Yucatan Yucatan 1The ...
Contents
Surface Configuration and Associated Geology of Middle America | 33 |
The Hydrography of Middle America | 84 |
The American Mediterranean | 122 |
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agriculture alluvial Amer archaeological areas arid Baja California Balsas basins Caribbean Central America central Mexico Chiapas Classic climate coast coastal plain Costa Rica cultivated culture deposits desert drain drainage early eastern erosion escarpment extends fauna fish formation genera geological Golfo groups Guatemala Gulf of Mexico highlands Honduras humid Indians Isthmus lakes land limestone lower lowlands MacNeish maize Maya Mesa Central Mesoamerica Mexican Plateau Mexico and Central Middle America montane mountain Nicaragua northern northwestern Oaxaca occur Ocean Pacific Panama Peninsula period Peten phase plants Pleistocene Postclassic Preclassic preconquest province rain forest rainfall range region river rocks salinity Salvador savanna seasonal shrubs Sierra Madre Sierra Madre Occidental slopes soils South America southern Mexico species streams surface Tamaulipas Tehuantepec temperatures Teotihuacan Tepexpan Tequixquiac tion trees tropical upper Valley of Mexico vegetation Veracruz volcanic western Yucatan zone