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en-wikipedia-org-9399		Huastec civilization - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1376	247	68	The Huastec civilization (sometimes spelled Huaxtec or Wastek) was a pre-Columbian civilization of Mesoamerica, occupying a territory on the Gulf coast of Mexico that included the northern portion of Veracruz state, and neighbouring regions of the states of Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.[1] The Huastec people were an early offshoot of the Maya peoples that migrated northwards.[2] Although the Huastec language is a Mayan language, the Huastec civilization is not considered to be a part of the Maya civilization.[6] They did not employ the Maya writing system,[7] and there are no known pre-Spanish Conquest Huastec documents.[8] Generally, the Huastecs are considered to have split from the main branch of the Maya around 2000 BC, in the Preclassic period, with this early separation accounting for the differences between Huastec and Maya culture. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. II: Mesoamerica, part 1.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9399.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9399.txt