By Barbara Voorhies
The reports performed at Tlacuachero are particularly major in gentle of the truth that data-rich lowland websites from the Archaic interval are terribly infrequent; the wealth of knowledge gleaned from the flooring of the Tlacuachero shellmound can now be commonly appreciated.
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