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ANDREA CUCINA; MICHAELA LUCCI; ALFREDO COPPA
The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico, 04/2023Book Chapter
The American continent has experienced two major events that have characterized the history of its population. The first event is the initial peopling that goes back to the Late Pleistocene (circa 16,000 years ago) (Goebel et al. 2008; Kumar et al. 2011; Potter et al. 2018), when the founding population spread into these new lands after having spent at least five millennia in the Beringia Land Bridge during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The second one occurred five centuries ago with the European “discovery” of the New World, which triggered intense population dynamics among continents that would change the cultural,
