Low-density agglomerations are not an oddity of the West Africa rainforest, but actually common in other tropical areas, such as Mesoamerica and Southeast Asia (Smith, 2023). The difference here is that processes of demographic accretion did not result in hierarchization or political centralization...
Perhaps most importantly, we know that corn, the paramount crop of the Puebloan farmers, had its origins in Mesoamerica. Those who hold to the view that Mesoamerica had a strong influence on the Indians of the desert "have emphasized the occurrence of Mexican items, technology, and ...
"El Paraido" and "Chuquintanta" on the central Peruvian coast, are the region's largest excavated Pre-Ceramic sites. Here various residential complexes of clay and stone were constructed by building rooms and terraces one on top of another, much the same as in the Pueblo towns of the sout...
Two major Olmec cities are known to researchers:San Lorenzoand La Venta. These are not the names the Olmec knew them by: their original names have been lost to time. San Lorenzo thrived from approximately 1200-900 B.C. and it was the greatest city in Mesoamerica at the time. Many impor...
MesoAmerica and South America When and where did the Olmecs settle? 1500 BCE in the Gulf of Mexico What were the two religious, political, and economic center of the Olmecs? San Lorenzo and La Venta What was the social structure based off? clothing and jewlery What is one of the great...
Review of Apanteles sensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica. Zookeys 2014, 383, 1–565. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Arias-Penna, D.C.; Whitfield, J.B...
Review of Apanteles sensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica. Zookeys 2014, 383, 1–565. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Arias-Penna, D.C.; Whitfield, J.B...