
This monograph marks the first presentation of a detailed Classic period ceramic chronology for central and southern Veracruz, the first detailed study of a Gulf Coast pottery production locale, and the first sourcing-distribution study of a Gulf Coast pottery complex.

Within these pages are living portraits of fifteen Native American groups of Arizona and northern Mexico. Literally and figuratively, the paths they walk are the same paths walked by their ancestors, going back hundreds and even thousands of years.