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May 5

56m 47s

Mexican Archaeology, by Thomas A. Joyce,...

About this episode

Let’s voyage to sleep with this history of the peoples of Mexico, travel with migrating tribes, consider the ways geography groups languages, and ponder some origin stories of the Aztecs. Also, your reader probably mispronounces everything, so apologies in advance.

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