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The vegetational history of the Oaxaca Valley and Zapotec plant knowledge : classification, uses, and communication about plants in Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico by C. Earle Smith and Ellen Messer is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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In Part I of this volume, C. Earle Smith draws on years of survey in the Oaxaca Valley and archaeological discoveries of plant remains in the region to create a portrait of the valley’s original wild vegetation, previous to human settlement. In Part 2, Ellen Messer provides the results of her ethnobotanical study of the Zapotec residents of Mitla, a town in the southern highlands of the Valley of Oaxaca. Over the course of four years, she studied with local residents to learn the names and uses
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- Author
- C. Earle Smith and Ellen Messer
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Published
- 1978
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780932206725
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Science, Mexico
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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