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Background Background
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Early Formative Groups in Northwestern Michoacán and Jalisco Early Formative Groups in Northwestern Michoacán and Jalisco
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Early–Middle Formative Groups of Inland Colima and Jalisco Early–Middle Formative Groups of Inland Colima and Jalisco
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Middle to Late Formative Groups in the Bajío of North-Central Mexico Middle to Late Formative Groups in the Bajío of North-Central Mexico
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Analysis Analysis
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Interaction between West Mexican Groups and Central Mexico from 1450 to 100 BCE Interaction between West Mexican Groups and Central Mexico from 1450 to 100 BCE
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Practices, Concepts, and Trajectories Practices, Concepts, and Trajectories
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The Rubber Ballgame The Rubber Ballgame
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Human Sacrifice Human Sacrifice
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Cosmology Cosmology
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Gods Gods
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Concurrent Trajectories toward Social Inequalities Concurrent Trajectories toward Social Inequalities
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Long-Distance Exchange in Exotics Long-Distance Exchange in Exotics
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Concluding Discussion: Fire and Water Concluding Discussion: Fire and Water
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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7 Regional and Corporate Identities in Formative Period Western Mexico
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Published:May 2022
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Abstract
Western Mesoamerica is often left out of considerations of Formative Period Mesoamerican history and culture, due to the absence of objects in the Gulf Coast Olmec style. This chapter posits that the far western states incorporated a distinct cultural heritage, worldview, and language family from those areas to the east that interacted most closely with the Gulf Coast Olmec region in the Early Formative. The argument is substantiated by extending the existing evidence for connections between western Mesoamerican groups further into central Mexico to the Tlatilco/Cuautla cultures and the major center of Cuicuilco. Ritual practices, worldview, and the emergence of inequalities are addressed within the context of corporate groups and long-distance exchange that delineate a different set of historical processes at work in the western Mesoamerican Formative. Incorporating, rather than avoiding, western Mesoamerica provides greater clarity to the Olmec phenomenon and to Mesoamerica’s diverse origins.
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