Pre-Olmec agricultural cultures of the Soconusco coast who built Mesoamerica's earliest-known sedentary settlements.
Dissolved as a distinct cultural entity around 1300 BCE when the major settlement of Paso de la Amada was abandoned amid political turmoil and local adoption of Early Olmec material culture styles; subsumed into emerging Olmec-horizon Mesoamerican traditions.
Era/regional survey situating the earliest Soconusco/pre-Olmec sedentary cultures within the broad sweep of ancient Mexican prehistory.
Comprehensive Mesoamerican survey covering the Soconusco Early Formative and the pre-Olmec Mokaya sedentary villages.