Early sedentary coastal people of southwestern Chiapas who subsisted primarily on shellfish and fish at five lagoon sites, among Mesoamerica's earliest non-agricultural sedentary communities.
Ceased around 1500 BCE as the Chantuto people's coastal shellmound-based subsistence pattern was replaced by the agricultural Barra and then Mokaya cultural traditions of the Soconusco coast.
Broad survey of ancient Mexican prehistory whose treatment of the Pacific-coast Soconusco archaic situates the shellmound-building Chantuto people in their place and time.
Covers the Archaic Soconusco coast and its early sedentary shellfish-gathering communities, the Chantuto people.