Handbook Of Middle American Indians. Natural Environment And Early Cultures. Volume I

WAUCHOPE, ROBERT [GENERAL EDITOR] & ROBERT C. WEST [VOLUME EDITOR]

Publication: University of Texas Press, 1964, Austin

First edition. Thick 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in black and white on the spine, vii [blank], 570 pp., double column, illustrated mostly from photographs, maps, charts, tables, references, index. This is the first of eleven volumes of this monumental series, a definitive encyclopedia of the environment, archaeology, ethnology, social anthropology, ethnohistory, linguistics, and physical anthropology of the native peoples of Mexico and Central America. In this first volume are chapters written by leading authorities in various fields of the natural and social sciences that are concerned with the natural environment of Middle America, its role in the shaping of Indian cultures, the earliest primitive hunters of this area, the beginnings of agriculture, and the broad patterns of prehistoric civilizations there. Minor rub to spine ends else a near fine copy in a price-clipped, lightly rubbed dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and extremities.

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