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The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene

PLoS ONE, 2017
Preceramic human skeletal remains preserved in submerged caves near Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, reveal conflicting results regarding 14C dating.
W. Stinnesbeck, Julia Becker, F. Hering, E. Frey, A. González, J. Fohlmeister, Sarah R. Stinnesbeck, N. Frank, Alejandro Terrazas Mata, M. Benavente, Jerónimo Avilés Olguín, Eugenio Aceves Núñez, P. Zell, Michael Deininger   +13 more
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Prolegómenos a las etnomatemáticas en Mesoamérica [PDF]

, 2004
El propósito de este artículo es identificar las similitudes entre los sistemas numéricos de las culturas olmeca y azteca, considerando los marcos teóricos de las etnomatemáticas y la difusión cultural en Mesoamérica. Para su desarrollo, el texto delinea
Ortiz-Franco, Luis
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Escritura, espacios sociales y cosmologías indígenas en Nueva España: una aproximación a los calendarios zapotecos

Revista de Indias, 2009
En 1704 y 1705, unas 103 copias del calendario ritual zapoteco de 260 días y cuatro colecciones de cantos rituales fueron entregadas al obispo fray Ángel Maldonado por oficiales de república zapotecos en la alcaldía mayor de Villa Alta, Oaxaca.
David Tavárez
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Droughts and human impact in the ancient Uaymil region of the Maya lowlands inferred from a 2800‐year sedimentary archive at Lake Kaná, Mexico

Boreas, EarlyView.
The relationship between the climate and societal transformation in Maya lowlands has long been debated, particularly the role of drought in shaping the civilization trajectory during the Classic Period. A high‐resolution, multi‐proxy, geochemical record from Lake Kaná, located in the underexplored Uaymil region of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico ...
Haydar B. Martinez‐Dyrzo, Priyadarsi D. Roy, Benjamin Gwinneth, Irma G. Vargas‐Martinez, Alejandro A. Aragon‐Moreno, Roger Medina‐Gonzales   +5 more
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La noción de vida en Mesoamérica [PDF]

, 2013
"Reseña del libro La noción de vida en ...
MARIA BENCIOLINI
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Cuba, Puerto Rico y Costa Rica: Desarrollo socio-económico comparativo 1960-90

Papeles de Geografí­a, 1995
Las islas de Cuba y Puerto Rico son muy parecidas en muchos aspectos, p.ej., situación geográfica, rasgos del ambiente físico, historia colonial, y composición étnica. Aunque las dos son relativamente pequeñas en extensión, hay diferencias significantes
Alfonso González
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Subsistence hunting shapes the spatial variation of jaguar densities in community‐managed forests

Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.
Jaguars and people can coexist in community‐managed forests, but distance matters. In Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, jaguar numbers increased markedly in areas harder to reach on foot, yet jaguars were still found near communities, showing that responsibly managed forests can support jaguar populations while allowing people to maintain traditional
L. Perera‐Romero, R. McNab, R. Garcia‐Anleu, J. Polisar, C. Sutherland, D. Thornton   +5 more
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Lisbona Guillén, Miguel y Justus Fenner (coord.) (2010), La Revolución mexicana en Chiapas, un siglo después, México: PROIMMSE-IIA-UNAM y Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas, pp. 500, ISBN 978-607-02-1400-4.

Liminar: Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, 2011
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Jorge Ramón González Ponciano
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“We always heal like this”: Illness management and identity expression in Latin American migrants in Spain

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
wiley   +1 more source