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Data Sources

INEGI Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia. Mexico.

ASTER GDEM (product of METI and NASA).

LORE-LPB Archaelogical Project. Dr. Fisher, Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University.

Acknowledgments

Dr. Christopher Fisher (CSU) for providing all the archaeological data, LORE-LPB Archaeological Project and all the archaeological crew for their hard fieldwork.

NSF (National Science Foundatation)

INAH (Instituto de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico)

Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University.