Specus Coxcatlán

Situs in Mexico

Specus Coxcatlán est locus archaeologicus iuxta vicum Coxcatlán situs, haud longe ab urbe Tehuacán distans civitatis Angelorum in Mexico, ubi vestigia habitationis hominum praesertim aevi archaici servata sunt. Ibi inter alimenta humana reperta sunt fructus speciei Zea mays fortasse nuper domesticatae, etiamnunc varietati silvaticae glabriusculo proximos, seminaque Capsici annui et Perseae americanae non iam domesticatarum, annis inter 9 000 et 7 000 a.p. deposita.

Bibliographia

Kent V. Flannery, Richard S. MacNeish, "In defense of the Tehuacan project" in Current Anthropology vol. 38 (1997) pp. 660-672
Kraig H. Kraft, Cecil H. Brown, Gary P. Nabhan, Eike Luedeling, José de Jesús Luna Ruiz, Geo Coppens d’Eeckenbrugge, Robert J. Hijmans, Paul Gepts, "Multiple lines of evidence for the origin of domesticated chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, in Mexico" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 111 (2014) pp. 6165–6170
Bruce D. Smith, "Reassessing Coxcatlan Cave and the early history of domesticated plants in Mesoamerica"in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 102 (2005) pp. 9438–9445
C. Earle Smith, "Archeological evidence for selection in avocado" in Economic Botany vol. 20 (1966) pp. 169–175 situs venalis

Nexus interni

Speluncae Ocampo

Nexus externi

"Tehuacan Valley" apud About Archaeology