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MESOAMERICA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
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
core   +6 more sources

Radiogenic strontium isotope variability in the Valley of Oaxaca: A predictive isoscape for Mesoamerican paleomobility studies. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
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
doaj   +2 more sources

WHAT'S IN A NAME: MESOAMERICA

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2013
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Luis Antonio Sánchez-González   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Traditional Herbal Medicine in Mesoamerica: Toward Its Evidence Base for Improving Universal Health Coverage

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2020
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
exaly   +3 more sources

A Prospective Study Measuring the Effect of an Interactive Educational Program on Overweight and Obesity among School-Aged Children

open access: yesDietetics, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing electronic decision-support tools to strengthen healthcare network data-driven decision-making

open access: yesArchives of Public Health, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

MesoRAD: A New Radiocarbon Data Set for Archaeological Research in Mesoamerica

open access: yesJournal of Open Archaeology Data, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural extreme drought assessment at global level using the FAO-Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS)

open access: yesWeather and Climate Extremes, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Cocoa as an Early form of Money in the Economic Sense: Satisfying Store of Value, Unit of Account and Medium of Exchange Requirements [PDF]

open access: yesSocioEconomic Challenges, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Communication, Computation, and Governance: A Multiscalar Vantage on the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World

open access: yesJournal of Social Computing, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

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