What is "mesoamerican"

Usage examples of "mesoamerican".

Since this Mesoamerican ritual has not really been practised for five centuries, we have the perspective to reflect on the tens of thousands of willing and unwilling sacrifices to the Aztec and Mayan gods who reconciled themselves to their fates with the confident faith that they were dying to save the Universe.

Indonesia, say, or in the Caribbean on the outskirts of a Mesoamerican civilization untouched by Conquistadores, or in Norse colonies on the shores of the Black Sea?

Rick Cook and Ernest Hogan is a pulpy detective story taking place in a world where the Aztec drove off Cortez and his Spaniards, and Mesoamerican civilization grew to dominate the New World.

Duverger divides the historical examples into two primary models, with the Roman Empire on one side and the Chinese, Arab, Mesoamerican, and other Empires on the other.

Twenty-five doors entered upon the room at all angles, and the trim around each of them was engraved in the same Mesoamerican motif.

Descendants of the Mesoamerican Amatl Indians, they had never in their long history been rulers of any domain.

Amatl mind, ancient Mesoamerican beliefs were so intertwined with Catholic liturgy as to be one indivisible belief.

One did not have to be an expert in Mesoamerican antiquities to realize what these artifacts were.

How could these ancient monoliths possibly be related to the Mayan calendar and the Mesoamerican culture, halfway across the world?

Kukulcan, or his ancestors, although every Mesoamerican group appears to have worshiped a male deity who fits the same physical description.

The fact that a tall, bearded Caucasian also appears in the legends of numerous other ancient Andean cultures provides further clues of a link between Mesoamerican Indians and those of South America.

Cambridge, my fellow archaeologists and I had found overwhelming evidence indicating a superior race of Caucasians had influenced the development of both the Mesoamerican and South American Indians.

Mayan ruins, hoping to identify the Mesoamerican pyramid the artist of Nazca had drawn upon the desert pampa, as well as a means of saving humanity from the prophesied destruction to come.

According to Mesoamerican legend, the Smoking Mirror gave Tezcatilpoca the ability to see into the souls of men.

His obituary described him as a millionaire, a traveller in Central America, and a collector of works of Mesoamerican art that were the envy of museums worldwide.