... is not inconceivable that other groups of ingenious and perhaps restless plainsmen reached the forest-covered shores of the Atlantic. It was this primitive milling equipment developed by the archaic people that provided the prototypes of the metate and mano still widely used in rural households of Mexico to grind cultivated corn. The shift in the eating habits of the early settlers has much to do with the disappearance of the mammoth and many other North American ... light upon the builders. Some communities had populations numbering in tens of thousands, carried on intensive agricultur...

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