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Central American and northern Andean cultures, c. 1492 Central American and northern Andean cultures, c. 1982 Distribution of Meso-American Indians.
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Central American and northern Andean Indian: References & Edit History

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Julian H. Steward (ed.), Handbook of South American Indians, 7 vol. (1946–59), on South American ethnography, archaeology, physical anthropology, and languages; and Julian H. Steward and Louis C. Faron, Native Peoples of South America (1959), a synthesis and updating of the previous work, togther provide a convenient summary and relate the peoples of the area to their neighbours. Two modern studies of the area are Linda Newson, The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras Under Spanish Rule (1986), and Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua (1987).

Dwight B. Heath The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Maps added showing the distribution of the Central American and northern Andean cultures, c. 1492 and c. 1982. Mar 12, 2010
Added new Web site: Cultural Survival - Mapping The Distribution of Indians in Central America. Nov 06, 2007
Article revised and updated. Oct 22, 2007
Article revised. Dec 01, 1999
Article added to new online database. Sep 18, 1998
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