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Mesoamerican area : File:Mesoamérica.png by Yavidaxiu (licence GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0) Globe location : File:Mesoamerica (orthographic projection).svg by TownDown (licence GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0) Author: Sémhur: Other versions: Attribution (required by the license)
Mesoamerica and its cultural areas. Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
The geography of Mesoamerica describes the geographic features of Mesoamerica, a culture area in the Americas inhabited by complex indigenous pre-Columbian cultures exhibiting a suite of shared and common cultural characteristics. Several well-known Mesoamerican cultures include the Olmec, Teotihuacan, the Maya, the Aztec and the Purépecha ...
Printable version; Page information; Get shortened URL ... and John Justeson. “THE HISTORY OF THE WORD FOR CACAO IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA.” Ancient Mesoamerica, vol ...
Map of Mesoamerican sites showing Santa Rosa. There are approximately 31 mounds at the site spread out over an area of about 54 hectares. [5] Settlements directly affiliated with the center have been located from the Angostura Canyon, clear down to the Guatemalan border as evidenced by dominant Santa Rosa pottery types found in the region.
Maya stele in Copán.. The Mesoamerican Classic Period can be established from around 200 to 900 A. D. However, the chronology varies in each cultural area. The precursors to this period are found in the late Preclassic Period, at around 400 B. C, when an increase in efficiency of agriculture technology led to demographic growth, a greater division of labor and specialization, and the growth ...
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The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.