Coxcatlan Cave is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Tehuacán Valley, State of Puebla, Mexico.[1] It was discovered by Richard MacNeish in the 1960s during a survey of the Tehuacán Valley.[2] It was the initial appearance of three domesticated plants in the Tehuacan Valley (Puebla, Mexico) that allowed an evaluation to be done again of the overall temporal context of the plant domestication in Mexico.[3] In addition to plants, Coxcatlan Cave also provided nearly 75 percent of the classified stone tools from excavation.[4]
^Smith, Bruce D. "Reassessing Coxcatlan Cave and the Early History of Domesticated Plants in Mesoamerica." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102.27 (2005): 9438-9445
^Trigger, Bruce G., Wilcomb E. Washburn, and Richard E. W. Adams. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 1996. Print.