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Unregulated Diffusion from Mexico into the Southwest Prior to A.D. 700*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Abstract
It is suggested that the idea of a sedentary pattern of existence diffused into southern Arizona from lower western Mexico or Guatemala by way of the region west of the Sierra Madre. It is also suggested that this transmission occurred shortly after the introduction of a teosinte-infected chapalote corn into the Southwest, a type that was better suited to low, arid regions than the chapalote corn that preceded it. The spread of this sedentary complex from southern Arizona into other areas also is outlined.
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- Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1965
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Permission has been granted by the National Park Service for use of material in a manuscript prepared in 1960 for the National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings.
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