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

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

Author
Eduardo Williams
Publisher
British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Language
English
Edition
Illustrated
Year
2014
Page
128
ISBN
1407312529,9781407312521,9781407342191
File Type
pdf
File Size
16.5 MiB

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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