Temple institutions and their personnel were entwined in the activities of all the other important institutions, acting as a sanctioning lubricant. The authors argue that the reason we keep finding the same persistent institutions鈥攊n their variant forms鈥攊s that these were the means by which ...
Vera Tiesler Blos, FCA/UADY The word "trepanation" comes from the Greek trypanon, which means "drill". In medical literature, trephining is commonly defined as a surgical operation of the skull cap for therapeutic purposes, meaning the intentional aperture of the skull by means of different ...
archaeologists believed it was built by the Toltec. This belief was based on colonial period texts such as the Florentine Codex which attributed the site to the Toltecs. However, the Nahuatl word "Toltec" generally means "craftsman of the highest level" and may not always refer to the archae...
theIzapancivilization is a clear example of a midpoint between the Olmec and the Classic Maya {the next great civilization}, in time and cultural content. For the following early Maya traits are found there:
and RM had a typical response of Alphaproteobacterial rhizospheric bacteria. Interestingly, the upregulation of nodulation genes was the only common response among the three strains; the exception was an up-regulated gene encoding a putative fatty acid hydroxylase, which appears to be a novel symbiot...
). Today most, if not all, ALS systems employ the Time-of-Flight (ToF) ranging principle, which means that they use short laser pulses and electronic systems to measure the time it takes for each laser pulse to make a round trip to and from a reflective surface. For more information ...
Following this, plant stem samples were removed from Javel water and washed with an acetic acid solution to remove any excess potassium hypochlorite. The first dye used was iodine green; the plant stem sections were immersed in this solution for 10–15 s, followed by the removal of any ...