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    Itzá y Dzibilchaltún: la supuesta importancia de los equinoccios en Mesoamérica". Arqueología Mexicana. Miller & Taube 1993, p. 30. Roxanne V. Pacheco...
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  • associated with her genital region. One of the best-known lintels from Mesoamerica, Yaxchilan Lintel 24 (right), shows Lady Xoc drawing a barbed rope through...
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    The geography of Mesoamerica describes the geographic features of Mesoamerica, a culture area in the Americas inhabited by complex indigenous pre-Columbian...
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    Agriculture in Mesoamerica dates to the Archaic period of Mesoamerican chronology (8000–2000 BC). At the beginning of the Archaic period, the Early Hunters...
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  • Dogs in Mesoamerica of various sorts are known to have existed in prehispanic times as shown by archaeological and iconographical sources, and the testimonies...
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    escultura prehispánica de mesoamérica. Barcelona: Lunwerg Editores. ISBN 84-9785-012-2. de la Fuente, Beatrice (2001). De Mesoamérica a la Nueva España. Oviedo...
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    Trepanation in Mesoamerica has been practised by a number of pre-Columbian cultures in the Mesoamerican region, dating from at least the mid-Preclassic...
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    that was an important part of the material culture of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Obsidian was a highly integrated part of daily and ritual life, and...
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    In the History of Mesoamerica, the stage known as the Paleo-Indian period (or alternatively, the Lithic stage) is the era in the scheme of Mesoamerican...
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    societies in the region. These developments were not uniform throughout Mesoamerica and often differed regionally. Most Archaic sites are not very well preserved...
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  • The Mesoamerica Integration and Development Project, or in Spanish Proyecto Mesoamérica (PM), is a mechanism by which 10 countries centered on Central...
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  • Look up Mesoamerica in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mesoamerica (lit. "mid/middle America") is a historical region and cultural area in southern North...
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    The use of jade in Mesoamerica for symbolic and ideological ritual was highly influenced by its rarity and value among pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures...
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    several hundred different languages and seven major language families. Mesoamerica is also an area of high linguistic diffusion in that long-term interaction...
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  • Domesticated plants of Mesoamerica, established by agricultural developments and practices over several thousand years of pre-Columbian history, include...
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    Spanish: [toɾˈtiʝa]) is a thin, circular unleavened flatbread from Mesoamerica originally made from maize hominy meal, and now also from wheat flour...
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    The emergence of metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica occurred relatively late in the region's history, with distinctive works of metal apparent in...
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  • Sid Meier's Civilization III is the third installment of the Sid Meier's Civilization turn-based strategy video game series. It was released in 2001, and...
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  • societies over time and depending on social status. Mesoamerica or Meso-America (Spanish: Mesoamérica) is a region and culture area in the Americas, extending...
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    Press. Urcid, Javier. (2010) “El sacrificio humano en el suroeste de Mesoamérica” in El Sacrificio Humano en la Tradición Religiosa Mesoamericana, edited...
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    anthropomorphic statues belonging to the Toltec culture in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. These figures are "massive statues of Toltec warriors". They take their...
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    Mound, located at the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest Precolumbian earthwork north of Mesoamerica and a World Heritage Site....
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    intercambio en la Mesoamérica antigua (1000–600 a.C.)" [Nacre, "jade" and cinnabar: Guerrero and trade networks in ancient Mesoamerica (1000–600 BCE)]....
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    macuahuitl: A probable weaponry innovation of the Late Postclassic in Mesoamérica". Arms and Armour, Journal of the Royal Armouires, Leeds. 3. Cervera...
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    the Natural History of a City." In El Urbanismo en Mesoamérica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica, vol. 1. edited by W.T. Sanders et al., 149–202. Mexico City:...
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    Itzá y Dzibilchaltún: la supuesta importancia de los equinoccios en Mesoamérica". Arqueología Mexicana. 25 (149): 26–31. Aveni and Gibbs. Other researchers...
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    escultura prehispánica de mesoamérica. Barcelona: Lunwerg Editores. ISBN 84-9785-012-2. de la Fuente, Beatrice (2001). De Mesoamérica a la Nueva España. Oviedo...
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    as well as artistic and architectural complexes. The formative-era of Mesoamerica is considered one of the six independent cradles of civilization. In...
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    territory of Colombia was a corridor of early human civilization from Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to the Andes and Amazon basin. The oldest archaeological...
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    used in the calendars of Ethiopia, Ancient Egypt, Iran, Armenia and in Mesoamerica among the Aztecs and Maya. It is still used by many Zoroastrian communities...
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