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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Mesoamerica"”.
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Early formative subsistence and agriculture in southeastern Mesoamerica
… area on the Pacific Coast of southeastern Mesoamerica. Previous archaeological research indicates that estuarine and riverine faunal resources provided the main basis for subsistence. Here, I propose that cultivation of indigenous food plants was also an important component in the …
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Status and Distribution of Manatees in Honduras and the Use of Side-Scan Sonar
… interviews. Like many other countries in Mesoamerica, Honduras had not been surveyed aerially for manatees for several decades, providing a substantial challenge to those wanting to develop a current recovery plan for the remaining population of manatees. Replicate aerial -surveys were …
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Between Culinary and Consecrated—The Introduction and Management of Turkeys in Greater Nicoya, Costa Rica
… and goods were traded both within and outside of Mesoamerica, turkey distribution areas are poorly understood. In this multicultural frontier of pre-contact Mesoamerica, my research suggests that these non-native birds may have been a restricted resource that served as indicators of social …
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The steps of kings: terraced landscapes in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, México
… and states and empires (Fisher et al. 2003). For Mesoamerica, terraces are a fundamental characteristic of ancient social complexity, and continued to be used post-Conquest (A.D. 1520). In the Lake Pátzcuaro basin, agricultural intensification was an important component of state formation in the …
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Art and Evangelization at the Sixteenth-Century Convento of Santiago Apóstol at Cuilapan, Mexico
… arrangement of meaningful elements from Mesoamerica and the Iberian Peninsula.</p> <p>This dissertation examines the subtle integration of prehispanic and peninsular elements at the convento of Santiago Apóstol in Cuilapan, a Mixtec community in southern Mexico. Construction on the …
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Chetumal's Dragonglass: Postclassic Obsidian Production and Exchange at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize
… preserved in the archaeological record of Mesoamerica. Because of this and obsidian's unique chemical properties, it has become one of the most common means by which to explain ancient exchange and production. Northern Belize has largely been absent from discussions of Postclassic …
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A Possible Ehecatl Figure from West Mexico
… deity Ehecatl, a god from the broadly shared Mesoamerican deity system that is previously unconfirmed in Preclassic Colima. While West Mexican sculpture was once considered merely illustrative of everyday activities, this thesis concludes that the MFAH Colima Dancer and similar figures evince …
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Murals and the Development of Merchant Activity at Chichen Itza
… transition from the Classic to Postclassic in Mesoamerica. With an increase in demand of foreign goods, new exchange relationships developed between centers in Central Mexico, the Gulf, and Maya region. As a result, several cultural regions participated in a vast economic network that created …
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Indigenous pottery from Sonora, Mexico: examining typologies and spatial distribution
… connectivity with the Southwest/Northwest and Mesoamerica. Systematic analysis of ceramics from the entire state provides critical information for answering these large-scale questions.</p>
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Writing of the Americas
… around 1000-900 BCE and spread throughout Mesoamerica into varying communities innovated to make their writing systems. The writing systems discussed are Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Epi-Olmec, Teotihuacan, Aztec, Mixtec, Khipus, Cree, Cherokee, and Inuktitut writing systems. Primary sources of …
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Settlement History and Interaction in the Manialtepec Basin of Oaxaca's Central Coast
… research, Oaxaca, Mexico, is one of Mesoamerica*s best understood regions. Yet, despite the volume of work in Oaxaca, information about one of its key resource areas, the central Pacific coast, remains limited. Specifically, the ambiguous role of Oaxaca*s Central Coast in …
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From Turkeys To Tamales: Paleoindian To Preclassic Period Faunal Use At Maya Hak Cab Pek Rockshelter In Southern Belize
… Archaic subsistence strategies of the people of Mesoamerica prior to the development of ceramics. Rockshelters with good preservation and stratigraphic deposits can provide excellent contexts for a comparative faunal analysis though time. In February of 2014 the Bladen Paleoindian and Archaic …
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Problem-based learning: a case study in integrating teachers, students, methods, and hypermedia data bases
… that includes a hypermedia data base about Mesoamerica, and (2) an observational study of middle school students using the system within a framework of problem-based learning for mastering content and thinking skills. The goal was to create a learning environment influenced by metacognitive …
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Water resource management by the ancient Maya of Yucatan, Mexico
… places, scholars of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica have been fascinated with the silent crumbling remains of ancient Maya cities that dot the cultural landscape of Yucatán in staggering numbers. Scientific research began in earnest nearly one hundred years ago with the first of many …
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The Shortcomings of Maize: Using Tipu to Assess Maize Consumption and its Impact on Stature and Limb Proportions Among the Maya
… osteologically typical of the Maya and greater Mesoamerica. All were made with the prediction that maize consumption negatively affected limb length and stature. Hypotheses 1 and 2 were supported. Hypothesis 3 was rejected; Tipu’s humerus:femur ratios were proportional compared to other groups, …
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Avifauna and Anthropogenic Forest Disturbance in Two Biodiversity Hotspots.
… cloud forest in Cusuco National Park, Mesoamerica. Both these study areas possess diverse bird communities with high rates of endemism, yet are under severe pressure from anthropogenic activity. The research also evaluates the optimal methodologies for surveying bird communities in …
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Persistent RNA Viruses of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): Distribution and Interaction with the Host and Acute Plant Viruses
… the two centers of common bean domestication: Mesoamerica and the Andes. The two endornaviruses were detected in many common bean genotypes of Mesoamerican origin but rarely in genotypes of Andean origin. A comparative study of morphological and physiological characteristics between two common …
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Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
… historical context of the Spanish Conquest of Mesoamerica in 1519-1524 and the establishment of Israel in 1948 as a Jewish state. Both events have created a rupture in Mayan and Palestinian histories and geographies, respectively, thus leading to the minoritization of these indigenous peoples. …
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Rock art regionalism and identity: case studies from Trans-Pecos Texas and Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
… groups and colonizers from Europe, from Mesoamerica, and from the Plains to the north; I focus on 44 rock art sites as manifestations of indigenous ideologies. Because rock art sites are implicated in cultural identity formation, I argue that lack of theoretically informed presentation …
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Pottery engineering in ancient Guerrero, Mexico : the site of Las Fundiciones
… evidence of prehispanic metal smelting in Mesoamerica it is critical to examine artifacts found there, in this case pottery, using the tools of materials science. These tools allow archaeologists to see past "stylistic preferences" to the design, functional, and compositional differences in …
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