Grace Quintanilla completed postgraduate studies in Television and Electronic Art at the Ducan of Jordanstone College of Art at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Her artistic work has been exhibited at new media festivals in Europe, America and Asia. In 2002 she was awarded the fellowship of ...
This biography of Mexico's award-winning archaeologist, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, is based on a series of interviews conducted by David Carrasco and Leonardo Lopez Lujan, respected Mesoamericanists in their own right. Born in 1940 Mexico City, Matos Moctezuma's father was a diplomat from the ...
Our work illustrates the value of genetic studies in diverse populations and provides foundational imputation and allele frequency resources for future genetic studies in Mexico and in the United States, where the Hispanic/Latino population is predominantly of Mexican descent....
Norman 1984 An Outline of Proto-Cholan Phonology, Morphology and VbyocJaobhunlaSr.y.JuInstePshoonneatnicdismLyilne MCaamyapnbeHlli,erpogpl.y7p7h-ic16W6.riItninstgi,tuetdeitfeodr Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York, Albany. Kelley, David H. 1982 Costume and Name in ...
Despite Mexico includes a large proportion of the biodiversity Mesoamerican hotspot, well-documented examples of insect diversity and distributions remain limited, and in many cases, sampling efforts have been biased towards ‘handy’ locations, thus limiting the role and importance of priority areas ...
made of different types of stone, depict a reclined man holding a tray or bowl on his belly or chest. Much is unknown about the origin, significance, and purpose of the Chac Mool statues, but ongoing studies have proven a strong link between them and Tlaloc, Mesoamerican god of rain and...
(In contrast, subsidence in Mexico City was around 30 cm/yr, in line with previous studies.)Ground failure by groundwater withdrawal subsidence. Credit: Natural Science, Vol. 6, No 3, 2014.An earlier study – Subsidence risk due to groundwater extraction in urban areas using fractal analysis...
tribes, and one by one they were defeated and enslaved. Then the plundering and looting, which had already begun, could proceed in ernest. The subsequent killing, slavery and disease would destroy over 75% of the population, and bring an end to the MesoAmerican cultures and most of their ...
The aqueduct was built with support from the local indigenous communities: “This hydraulic system is an example of the exchange of influences between the European tradition of Roman hydraulics and traditional Mesoamerican construction techniques, including the use of adobe.” (UNESCO) ...
They were highly valued in Mesoamerican societies, specifically jadeite which can be associated with albite, omphacite and quartz, as they represented power, fertility and even life itself [16]. Jadeite stones have their origin in basic igneous rocks that underwent a process of metamorphism due to...