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Oasisamerica
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Etymology
From en oasis America. en Paul Kirchhoff 1954 German-Mexican anthropologist 1.Paul Kirchhoff, “Gatherers and farmers in the Greater Southwest: a problem in classification”, in American Anthropologist, 56 (1954) (Special Southwest Issue), pp. 529-550.
Proper noun
A broad cultural area of pre-Columbian southwestern North America, between Utah and Chihuahua, and bordering the Gulf of California, on the Mexican mainland.
en Aridoamerica Mesoamerica
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