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The Mesoamerican linguistic area is rich with prosodic phenomena, including a wide variety of complex tone, phonation, stress, and intonational systems. The diversity of prosodic patterns in Mesoamerica reflects the extreme time-depth and complex history of the languages spoken there.
DiCanio, Christian, Bennett, Ryan
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Radiogenic strontium isotope variability in the Valley of Oaxaca: A predictive isoscape for Mesoamerican paleomobility studies. [PDF]
Radiogenic strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analysis is a well-established method for reconstructing the mobility of human populations in the past and present.
Sofía I Pacheco-Forés +4 more
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Luis Antonio Sánchez-González +3 more
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The quality of health care in Mesoamerica is influenced by its rich cultural diversity and characterized by social inequalities. Especially indigenous and rural communities confront diverse barriers to accessing formal health services, leading to often ...
Laura Casu, S Cristians, Marco Leonti
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Being overweight or obese is a public health problem. This work evaluated a food and nutrition education (FNE) intervention to reduce overweight status among schoolchildren in four schools in the West Panama Province. This was a quasi-experimental before-
Israel Ríos-Castillo +5 more
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Background Ministries of health in low- and middle-income countries often lack timely quality data for data-driven decision making in healthcare networks.
Diego Rios-Zertuche +4 more
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MesoRAD: A New Radiocarbon Data Set for Archaeological Research in Mesoamerica
The Mesoamerican Radiocarbon Database (MesoRAD) compiles radiocarbon dates from the archaeological literature of Mesoamerica. The inaugural data set, ‘Lowland Maya Dates’, includes 1846 radiocarbon dates from 132 sites in 21 distinct environmental zones ...
Julie A. Hoggarth +2 more
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Drought is one of the most frequent climate-related disasters occurring across large portions of globe often with devastating consequences for the food security of agricultural households.
Oscar Rojas
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Cocoa as an Early form of Money in the Economic Sense: Satisfying Store of Value, Unit of Account and Medium of Exchange Requirements [PDF]
This article examines the special case of cocoa in different parts of Mesoamerica, as it was used for an additional purpose, besides providing for nutritional needs of people, as well as for religious and other ceremonies.
Paul F. Gentle
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Writing has often been put forth as one indicator of civilization. This correspondence dovetails with the even broader cross-species expectation that the degrees of social complexity and levels of computational communication should closely correlate ...
Gary M. Feinman, David M. Carballo
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