TY - BOOK AU - Jaime Litvak-King TI - Ancient Mexico - An Overview SN - 9780826308177 AV - F1219 PY - 1999/// PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - History - Mexico N2 - Engaging introduction to Mexico before the Spanish conquest. The author, a leading Mexican archaeologist, guides the novice reader from the arrival of man in the New World through the millenniums during which society evolved from small groups of hunter-gatherers to the advanced civilization present in the sixteenth century. He show us religious art and architecture, deals with the importance of trade in the development of the Olmec civilization, and its role in the decline of the Aztec empire ER -