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Genetic insights into the peoples who shaped the American continent. [PDF]

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Osteobiographies in Mesoamerica:

Osteobiographies have a long history in Mesoamerican bioarchaeology. This introductory chapter discusses the evolution of the approach to osteobiography in Mesoamerica, beginning with Frank Saul’s coining of the term in his work at Altar de Sacrificios and Javier Romero’s earlier “osteología antropológica” in Mexico.
Gabriel D. Wrobel, Andrea Cucina
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Divination in Mesoamerica

2023
Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Archaeology to the School of Historical and European Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
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“Homosexual Occupations” in Mesoamerica?

Journal of Homosexuality, 1991
Data gathered among self-identified homosexual men in Guatemala City and Mexico City call into question the intrinsic connection between homosexuality and occupational choice posited by Whitam and Mathy (1986). Concentrations of homosexual men in some occupations can be explained as effects of discrimination and of the normal transmission through ...
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Weights and Measures in Mesoamerica

2008
In Latin America, the Indian populations measured and counted the goods, lands, merchandise, and the days and months according to scientist systems that historiography began to decrypt. After the Spanish conquest, the conquerors imported the weights and measures of their country, the Castille, which, itself, had borrowed a good part from the Arab ...
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Interdisciplinary Approaches in Mesoamerica:

2018
This final chapter synthesizes the chapters in the volume. It emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary approaches as they apply to complex issues of migration, mobility, ethnicity, and social identity. Drawing on the book’s chapters, warfare, elite intermarriage, economic opportunities and/or state economic demands, ecological traumas, and political ...
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The Pipil Migrations in Mesoamerica:

2019
Drawing on comparative studies of migrations from the U.S. Southeast and Southwest, I propose a new model for the interpretation of the Pipil migrations from central Mexico to southeastern Mesoamerica. These studies indicate that identity politics associated with cultural construction (sensu Pauketat) are often closely related to historical processes ...
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Urbanism in Mesoamerica

2021
Abstract Urban societies have been defined as stratified, and sometimes literate, societies that build large, densely populated, and monumental centers that serve specialized political, economic, and ritual functions for their regions. Mesoamerica is one of six world regions where urban societies developed, independently, in antiquity.
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La Mesoamerica

2019
Introduzione all'area culturale ...
Davide Domenici, Francesca Scarioli
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Southern Mesoamerica

2002
Abstract Of the nearly five million people who are called Maya, the largest single group belongs to the Yucatan Peninsula, which is divided among the Mexican states of Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo and the northern parts of Guatemala and Belize.
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