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 | | Perhaps the explanation is that even resource-rich Soconusco had been pushed to the limits of its "carrying capacity," and overpopulation had finally obliged the Zoques to expand into the territories of their Maya neighbors to the north. |
 | | The original Zoquean core of Soconusco was all but submerged by Nahuatl-speakers, although the Tapachultecas managed to retain their own linguistic identity in the mountains back of Izapa until the latter decades of the nineteenth century. |
 | | Using such a definition, the location of San Lorenzo, relative to the Zoque homeland in Soconusco, is seen to be adjacent; in other words, if the region of Soconusco itself was central to the life of the Zoques, then San Lorenzo was the nearest major Olmec ceremonial center to that area. |
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