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Pre-classic, a. Archæol.
[pre- B. 1.]
Designating a period of Meso-American culture, about 1500 b.c. to a.d. 300.
1956G. W. Brainerd Morley's Anc. Maya (ed. 3) iii. 40 Maya history may be divided into three states: (1) Pre-classic, extending from about 1500 B.C. to A.D. 317; (2) Classic, from A.D. 317 to 889; and (3) Postclassic, from 889 until 1697. 1967L. Deuel Conquistadors without Swords iii. xv. 188 The emergence of an ‘archaic age’ in Mexican pre-history, now usually referred to as formative or pre-classic. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 188/2 Pre-classic (or Formative) period, used in American archaeology for the period in which agriculture..formed the basis of settled village life. Ibid. 189/1 In the chronological sense..the Pre-classic period is usually taken to have ended c 300 AD. 1974Nature 6 Dec. 472/1 The earliest occupation discovered belongs to the Real Xe phase of the Middle Preclassic Period... This cache was actually located beneath several preclassic floors. |