Sublime

This pattern of growing special plants long before staples is particularly well documented in Mexico. Here the chilipepper, the avocado, the bean, several species of squash and a number of fruit trees, such as cosahuico and chupandilla, were domesticated several thousand years before such staples as maize, millet and amaranth.

Lost-wax casting was familiar to BMAC metalsmiths. Southern decorative motifs (stepped pyramids), raw materials (lead and lapis lazuli), one mirror, and metal-working techniques (lost-wax casting) appeared in the north just when northern pottery, chariot-driving cheekpieces, bit wear, and horse bones appeared in the south.