• Data collected by IHME during its evaluation of the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI) is driving improvements in the health systems that serve some of the Americas' poorest people. (healthdata.org)
  • Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to most of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala and El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. (wikipedia.org)
  • Still, hundreds of proposed large dams, planned with very little transparency under the Mesoamerica Plan, continue to threaten the rivers of Central America and Mexico, along with the economies of communities that rely on these rivers for their livelihood. (internationalrivers.org)
  • Concise and entertaining, this text covers some of the more nauseating facts about pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (the region spanning Central America). (rosenpublishing.com)
  • As we discussed in an earlier post, the Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot spans most of Central America, encompassing all subtropical and tropical ecosystems from central Mexico to the Panama Canal and includes the Mamoni Valley. (ecoreserve.org)
  • The Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot is very important for biodiversity as it represents the place where the animals and plants from two regions come together (the Nearctic of North America and the Neotropical of South and Central America). (ecoreserve.org)
  • The work committees of ILSI Mesoamerica are the spaces in which academia, governments, and industry establish joint work opportunities and develop activities for the region. (ilsi.org)
  • In 2019, Mesoamerica strengthened its footprint in Colombia by acquiring a minority stake in Alquería, one of the largest players in the Colombian retail liquid milk category. (mesoamerica.com)
  • Third International Workshop on Chronic Kidney Diseases of Uncertain/Non-traditional Etiology in Mesoamerica and Other Regions, March 20-22, 2019, San José, Costa Rica. (cdc.gov)
  • Moroni having 35 years to travel to North America from Mesoamerica after the Nephite and Lamanite wars, would have been very familiar with storing precious religious items in a stone BOX . (bmaf.org)
  • As a cultural area, Mesoamerica is defined by a mosaic of cultural traits developed and shared by its indigenous cultures. (wikipedia.org)
  • In world history, Mesoamerica was the site of two historical transformations: (i) primary urban generation, and (ii) the formation of New World cultures from the mixtures of the indigenous Mesoamerican peoples with the European, African, and Asian peoples who were introduced by the Spanish colonization of the Americas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aspects of the Mesoamerican cultural heritage still survive among the indigenous peoples who inhabit Mesoamerica. (wikipedia.org)
  • Specifically, the Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica have played the most central role. (historycooperative.org)
  • Towards the end of the post-Classic period, the Aztecs of Central Mexico built a tributary empire covering most of central Mesoamerica. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was also a practice in Mesoamerica, particularly by the Aztecs. (bmaf.org)
  • It was composed of the 2 centers of the New World, Mesoamerica (Aztecs and Mayas) in the north and the Andean Area (Incas) in the south. (cdc.gov)
  • The city was probably filled with people from multiple cultures in Mesoamerica , living and working together. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Below are traditions and practices that the Indians of Mesoamerica had in common with Book of Mormon cultures that the North American Indians did not have . (bmaf.org)
  • Is there a connection between the use of "three" for the Book of Mormon writers who lived in Mesoamerica, and the use of threesomes prevalent among the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica? (bmaf.org)
  • This internship will contribute to the development of the 'Human Footprint' in Mesoamerica, an analysis that has the objective of understanding conservation trends in the biggest and wildest areas in Southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. (conservationleadershipprogramme.org)
  • The Caribbean and Mesoamerica are two biodiversity hotspots where human activity has had a profound impact on the ecosystems and many plant species, including trees, are currently under threat. (kew.org)
  • ecoReserve's first reserve is located in the Mamoni Valley in Panama and is part of the Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot. (ecoreserve.org)
  • Will Cadell, our geospatial engineer, provided a map that shows the location of the Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot and the location of the Mamoni Valley in the hotspot (the red lines delimit outer boundaries of the Mamoni Valley). (ecoreserve.org)
  • The Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot is home to many animals, including over 400 species of mammals. (ecoreserve.org)
  • The silky anteater is only one of the species that lives in the Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot and the Mamoni Valley. (ecoreserve.org)
  • This year's theme is News from the Field: Archaeological Perspectives from Mesoamerica . (utmesoamerica.org)
  • In this newspaper an attempt definitely will made to adequately explain what exactly maize is definitely, how maize became a primary staple in prehistoric people's diet, and last how provides maize happen to be detected for Mesoamerica via evidence in the archaeological report. (diffusion-rec.fr)
  • For information about our 2021 Mesoamerica Meetings online workshop led by David Stuart and Danny Law, please visit our Online Workshop page . (utmesoamerica.org)
  • It was set in a world inspired by Mesoamerica at the time when Europeans arrived, with some magic added on top. (stackexchange.com)
  • Mesoamerica is also one of only five regions of the world where writing is known to have independently developed (the others being ancient Egypt, India, Sumer, and China). (wikipedia.org)
  • Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. (benjamins.com)
  • Mesoamerica is one of the six areas in the world where ancient civilization arose independently (see cradle of civilization), and the second in the Americas, alongside Norte Chico in present-day Peru. (wikipedia.org)
  • All this was facilitated by considerable regional communications in ancient Mesoamerica, especially along the Pacific coast. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ancient Mesoamerican sites in El Salvador Holy Spirit Grotto Joya de Cerén Tazumal Casa Blanca San Andres Cihuatán The term Mesoamerica literally means "middle America" in Greek. (wikipedia.org)
  • Who Built Teotihuacan, One of the Largest and Most Impressive Ancient Cities in Mesoamerica? (discovermagazine.com)
  • Many types of axes mundi existed in ancient Mesoamerica, both natural and man-made. (interpreterfoundation.org)
  • Expression, Knowledge and Origin of Ancient Mesoamerica, Gurdjieff's Fourth Way Teaching and more! (mesoamericas.com)
  • MesoAmerica, our ancient MesoAmerica education game. (dig-itgames.com)
  • Studing cranial vault modifications in ancient Mesoamerica. (bvsalud.org)
  • Taste the origins of the chocolate tradition with our Kakawa drinking chocolate historic recipes from Mesoamerica. (kakawachocolates.com)
  • Together with our collaborators from JBN in the Dominican Republic and the University of Puerto Rico, we organised a scientific symposium on the conservation and sustainable use of seeds of native trees in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean region. (kew.org)
  • 1 This, of course, would follow through with the use of numbers in the Book of Mormon and in traditions of Mesoamerica. (bmaf.org)
  • Numerous stone BOXES have been found in Mesoamerica, even one which held a Maya book called a codex. (bmaf.org)
  • The prevalence of practices and predictors of breastfeeding among the poor in Mesoamerica has not been well described. (healthdata.org)
  • At this time during the Epi-Classic period, the Nahua peoples began moving south into Mesoamerica from the North, and became politically and culturally dominant in central Mexico, as they displaced speakers of Oto-Manguean languages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mesoamerica extends from central Mexico south along the Middle American isthmus. (internationalrivers.org)
  • Mesoamerica is the area that covers the present-day countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and part of Nicaragua. (precolombino.cl)
  • An example of the number three in Mesoamerica is the sacred planting ritual that was and still is performed by the Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico. (bmaf.org)
  • This condensed list suggests Mesoamerica as the locale where the Book of Mormon transpired. (bmaf.org)
  • Ritual Complexes in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon," in Temple Insights: Proceedings of the Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, "The Temple on Mount Zion," 22 September 2012, ed. (interpreterfoundation.org)
  • Excavations have revealed numerous apartment complexes that could have held up to a hundred people each, as well as evidence that intermingled ethnic groups from all over Mesoamerica once resided in the city. (discovermagazine.com)
  • To see more Mesoamerica Center scholarship and to subscribe to a publications RSS feed, visit our community page on the University of Texas Libraries' Texas Scholar Works repository . (utmesoamerica.org)
  • MesoAmerica product page by following this link . (dig-itgames.com)
  • Middle America often refers to a larger area in the Americas, but it has also previously been used more narrowly to refer to Mesoamerica. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the pre-Columbian era, many societies flourished in Mesoamerica for more than 3,000 years before the Spanish colonization of the Americas begun on Hispaniola in 1493. (wikipedia.org)
  • Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond contains high-quality articles of interest to Mesoamericanists, historical linguists, sociolinguists, and any scholar interested in language-contact effects. (benjamins.com)
  • When one studies Mesoamerica they recognize that three of this and three of that was extremely important. (bmaf.org)