Blake Soconusco

Prehistoric Subsistence in the Soconusco Region
Michael Blake; Brian S. Chisholm; John E. Clark; Barbara Voorhies; Michael W. Love
Current Anthropology, Vol. 33, No. 1. (Feb., 1992), pp. 83-94.
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Prehistoric Subsistence in the
Soconusco Region1
M I C H A E L BLAKE, B R I A N S. CHISHOLM, J O H N E.
B A R B A R A VOORHIES, A N D M I C H A E L W .

CLARK,
LOVE

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University of BritishColumbia, 6303 N.W. Marine
Drive, Vancouver, B. C., Canada V6T 2B2 (Blake and
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Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young
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produce seed crops in Mesoamerica, especially maize,
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isotope research was carried out under a University of British
Columbia-Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant and
funding from the New World Archaeological Foundation. We thank
MichaelHanslip for his assistance in the initial preparation of the
samples and Bente Nielsen of the University of British Columbia Department of Oceanography for carrying out the massspectrographic analyses. Archaeological fieldwork was funded by
the New World Archaeological Foundation, the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Science
Foundation, the University of...