Indigenous Culture and Change in Guerrero, Mexico, 7000 BCE to 1600 CE

Ian Jacobs’ work brings together a multidisciplinary set of insights into the history of Guerrero and its inhabitants—including indigenous peoples, Europeans, Africans, Asians, and eventually peoples of mixed ancestry-- as they moved through different epochs of the region’s history.

Until recently, Guerrero’s past has suffered from relative neglect by archaeologists and historians. While a number of excellent studies have expanded our knowledge of certain aspects of the region’s history or o...