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  • Thumbnail for Quatrefoil
    product of taking a regular quatrefoil and dividing it in half. In ancient Mesoamerica, the quatrefoil is frequently portrayed on Olmec and Mayan monuments...
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  • Thumbnail for Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
    of metallic objects. The rather late emergence of metallurgy in ancient Mesoamerica likely contributed to its novelty and subsequent role as a marker...
    11 KB (1,261 words) - 00:00, 8 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Regional communications in ancient Mesoamerica
    Regional communications in ancient Mesoamerica are believed to have been extensive. There were various trade routes attested since prehistoric times....
    36 KB (4,442 words) - 00:38, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Acolhua
    Chalca, Xochimilca and others. The most important political entity in ancient Mesoamerica was the Triple Alliance (Nahuatl, excan tlatoloyan), founded in 1428...
    3 KB (364 words) - 04:42, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Teuchitlán culture
    in prehispanic western Mesoamerica. In The Political Economy of Ancient Mesoamerica: Transformations during the Formative and Classic Periods, edited...
    40 KB (5,520 words) - 18:27, 2 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agriculture in Mesoamerica
    of labor and social stratification. The most important plant in ancient Mesoamerica, was, unarguably, maize. Squash and beans were also important staples...
    13 KB (1,505 words) - 16:27, 2 October 2023
  • economic, governmental, and farming activities. The lives of women in ancient Mesoamerica are not well documented: "Of the three elite founding area tombs...
    22 KB (2,561 words) - 00:07, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chunchucmil
    an analysis of obsidian refuse from Ojo de Agua, Chiapas, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 8:137-159. Clark, John E., and Douglas D. Bryant (1997) Technological...
    28 KB (3,473 words) - 14:22, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eccentric flint
    ('eccentric') shape produced by the Classic Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. Although generally referred to as "flints", they were typically...
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  • CRANIAL MODIFICATION AS PROTECTION AND ENSOULMENT AMONG THE MAYA. Ancient Mesoamerica, 22, pp 199-210 Miller, Mary. "Extreme Makeover." Archaeology 62...
    35 KB (4,806 words) - 17:08, 22 August 2024
  • recent archeological and epigraphic research at Pusilhá, Belize". Ancient Mesoamerica. 15 (2): 219–233. doi:10.1017/s0956536104040143. British Museum Collection...
    15 KB (1,633 words) - 00:26, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Twin-pyramid complex
    group was an architectural innovation of the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. Twin-pyramid complexes were regularly built at the great city of...
    21 KB (2,466 words) - 15:54, 10 June 2024
  • 1975 Maya Settlement Hierarchy in Northern Belize. In Studies in Ancient Mesoamerica, II, edited by John A. Graham, pp. 40-55. Contributions of the University...
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  • an analysis of obsidian refuse from Ojo de Agua, Chiapas, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 8:137-159. Clark, John E., and Douglas D. Bryant (1997) Technological...
    5 KB (634 words) - 13:29, 27 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for David Stuart (Mayanist)
    is an archaeologist and epigrapher specializing in the study of ancient Mesoamerica, the area now called Mexico and Central America. His work has studied...
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  • Terminal Classic Maya ceramic chronology for the Chichen Itza area". Ancient Mesoamerica. 9 (1): 151–165. doi:10.1017/S0956536100001917. ISSN 1469-1787. S2CID 161446650...
    882 bytes (70 words) - 20:47, 2 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for History of chocolate
    cultural use of cacao were extensive in Mesoamerica. Inhabitants of ancient Mesoamerica created varietals of cacao that grew abundant, high-quality fruit...
    63 KB (7,536 words) - 09:52, 18 October 2024
  • scholar who investigated the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica, Colas was well known for his contributions to the study of the Maya...
    11 KB (1,038 words) - 19:10, 28 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Otompan
    Otis Charlton (2000). "Otumba and its neighbours: Ex oriente lux". Ancient Mesoamerica. 11 (2): 247–265. doi:10.1017/S0956536100112088. S2CID 162264644...
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  • Professor in art history. Her contributions to the scholarship of ancient Mesoamerica include the zoomorphs and cosmic monsters of Quirigua (also her doctoral...
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