Thesis abstract Historia cultural del norte de la huasteca prehispánica [Cultural History of the Northern Prehispanic Huasteca]

Abstract

In the area known as the Huasteca, different populations and cultures converge and, over the course of 4000 years, have built a common identity and belonging that is exposed in the broad spectrum of Mesoamerican societies. However, the cultural richness and diversity observed here, also contrasts with a breadth of ecosystems that, along the Sierra Madre Oriental, Sierra de Tamaulipas and northern Gulf coastal plain, account for different processes of importance to the history of the development of different subsistence economies, among which are hunting-fishing and gathering, as well as low and high intensity agriculture (Hanselka 2008, 2011; MacNeish 1947, 1954, 1958, 1998, 2001; Silva et al. 2019).