The term bean originally referred to the seed of the broad or fava bean, but was later expanded to include members of the New World genus Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and th ...
Most historians believe maize was domesticated in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico. The Olmec and Mayans cultivated it in numerous varieties throughout Mesoamerica, cooked, ground or processed through ni ...
The modern day state of Hidalgo is located within the pre-Hispanic region of Mesoamerica. Numerous migrations of indigenous people took place through here, mostly arriving or passing through from the ...
The etymology of the word navaja is derived from the Latin novacula, meaning razor, and the Andalusian knife known as the navaja is thought to have derived from the navaja de afeitar, or straight razo ...
... among the various forms of glass we may reckon Obsian glass, a substance very similar to the stone found by Obsius in Ethiopia.The translation into English of Natural History written by the elder ...
The etymology is unknown.According to INAH, Zelia Nuttall believes that Cuicuilco means: “Place where songs and dances are made””.History Top ring of the main pyramid as seen from stairs leading to ...
Place of Nahuatl within Uto-Aztecan Main articles: Nahuan languages and Nahuatl dialectsIn the past, the branch of Uto-Aztecan to which Nahuatl belongs was called "Aztecan". From the 1990s on, the alt ...
The Oaxaca state is best known for native ancestral cultures. The most numerous and best known are the Zapotecs and the Mixtecs, but there are sixteen that are officially recognized. These cultures ha ...
Given the distance between La Quemada and the centre of Mesoamerica, this archeological zone has been subject of different interpretations on the part of historians and archeologists, who have attempt ...
Epigraphers think that the ancient name for the city was probably the same as that of its' realm, Pa' Chan. pronounced , meaning "Cleft (or broken) Sky". Early archaeologist Désiré Charnay dubbed th ...
The river and its tributaries were important trade routes for the ancient Maya civilization. Yaxchilan and Piedras Negras, two of the most powerful cities of the Maya Classic Period, lie along its ban ...
The Maya city of Waka' was rediscovered by oil prospectors in the 1960s. In the 1970s Ian Graham, a Harvard researcher, documented monuments at the site. Then in 2003 David Freidel, of Southern Method ...
"Naranjo" in Spanish language means "Orange Tree." The emblem glyph of the polity is rendered as Sa'aal, thought to mean "the place where maize gruel abounds." Another ancient Classic Maya language na ...
Epigraphers think that the ancient name for the city was probably the same as that of its' realm, Pa' Chan. pronounced , meaning "Cleft (or broken) Sky". Early archaeologist Désiré Charnay dubbed th ...
The name Nahua is derived from the Nahuatl word nāhuatl , which means "clear", "intelligible" or "speaking the Nahuatl language". It was used in contrast with popoloca , "to speak unintelligibly" or ...
