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Urban Scaling in Prehispanic Central Mexico
Despite the fact that cities are increasingly the fundamental socioeconomic units of human societies worldwide, a unified quantitative framework concerning urban form and function has yet to be established. As a step in this direction, we analyze settlement data from the Prehispanic Basin of Mexico to show that this system displays spatial scaling properties analogous to those observed for mode...
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Although in modern societies fermented beverages are associated with socializing, celebration, and ritual, in ancient times they were also importa`nt sources of essential nutrients and potable water. In Mesoamerica, pulque, an alcoholic beverage produced from the fermented sap of several species of maguey plants (Agavaceae; Fig. 1) is hypothesized to have been used as a dietary supplement and r...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hispanic American Historical Review
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0018-2168,1527-1900
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-57.3.578a