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The great pre-Columbian civilizations existed in what is now Latin America, whereas north of the present Mexican border, the Amerindians formed few great concentrations of population. Numerical data on pre-Columbian America have been difficult or impossible to obtain; and even in the most favorable case, central Mexico, there has been much dispute about the size of the population before the Spanish conquest.
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Lancaster, H.O. (1990). Latin America. In: Expectations of Life. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1003-0_43
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