More than 3,000 years ago, a coastal town served as the center of a “mother culture,” that shaped societies in a wide swath of what’s now southern and central Mexico. Jeffrey P. Blomster of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues arrived at this conclusion following an extensive investigation into the region’s pottery trade.
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