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Há 5 dias · Mesoamerican world tree. A tableau from the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, showing a multi-layered tree with birds. It has been proposed that the birds represent souls who have not yet descended into the underworld, [1] while the central tree may represent the Mesoamerican world tree. [2] World trees are a prevalent motif occurring in the ...
Há 6 dias · MacNeish, Richard S. (2001). "Mesoamerican Chronology: Early Development and the Archaic Period (before 2600 BCE)". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Culture. 2: 226–236. ISBN 0-19-510815-9. Marcus, Joyce; Kent V. Flannery (2000). "Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca: The Origins of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations".
Há 4 dias · Many elements of Mesoamerican civilizations, like the practice of building of pyramids, the complex calendar, the pantheon of gods and hieroglyphic writing have origins in Olmec culture. They produced jade and ceramic figurines, colossal heads and pyramids with temples at the top, all without the advantage of metal tools.
Há 4 dias · Ancient Mesoamerican Population History - Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change; Including research from both highland central Mexico and the tropical lowlands of the Maya and Olmec areas, this book reexamines demography in ancient Mesoamerica.
Há 4 dias · We may conclude, then, that the system of graphic communication used in central Mexican codices, and especially in the divinatory ones, fulfilled some of the functions that our writing has, but also differs in an important way. The function in common is to communicate, regardless of time and space, and to preserve the information and social ...
Há 5 dias · In conclusion, research on ancient Mesoamerican caves has demonstrated that they were important sacred spaces that housed powerful deities that could help or hinder human enterprise. Their associations with the sacred earth as well as the underworld made them important places to conduct rituals associated with rainmaking and agricultural fertility.
Há 1 dia · Miller, Mary and Karl Taube, "The gods and symbols of ancient México and the Maya: an illustrated dictionary of Mesoamerican religion", 1st edition, Thames and Hudson, 1993, London, UK. Molina, Fray Alonso de “Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana”, preliminary study by Miguel León Portilla, 4th edition, Editorial Porrúa, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico.
