Mesoamerica Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Like many ancient civilizations, the ancient Maya profoundly appreciated board games. Recent excavations in Mexico by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historical and ethnographic sources have long highlighted the importance of tobacco in Mesoamerica, but finding actual physical evidence of this plant in archaeological digs
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the most intriguing archaeological pre-Columbian sites is Teotihuacán, which scientists still know relatively little about. Who were the people who built
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - Ancient Pages.com - Jade was held sacred by many ancient civilizations. The green stone has been found in many ancient tombs and placed there as
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Zapotec civilization was by no means primitive. On the contrary, when investigating archaeological sites in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica, scientists
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Archaeoastronomy
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most ancient civilizations studied celestial objects and were skilled astronomers. Countless archaeological examples have provided evidence ancient people were often more advanced than
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-held consensus that the more populated and "civilized" a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The city of Teotihuacán in Mexico remains as intriguing as mysterious. There is still so much we do not know about Teotihuacán, a
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The rubber ball game is one of the most fundamental and iconic features of ancient Mesoamerica, a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing Guatemala, Belize,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old stela known as Stela 87 was recently found by archaeologists working at the Tak'alik Ab'aj archaeological park in El Asintal, 85
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Several ancient Mesoamerican civilizations possessed profound knowledge in a variety of scientific fields. They were skilled astronomers, who tracked celestial objects and documented
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Toltecs, an ancient Mesoamerican culture, lived in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. The Aztecs refer to the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors. We
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have long tried to explain purpose of Mesoamerican potbelly statues. Are they depictions of the ruling elite? Perhaps they were made to honor
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It is an ancient mystery that remains unsolved even today. Our quest for traces of advanced ancient lost civilizations takes us to Mesoamerica where
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Body modification was very important to several ancient civilizations. In Mesoamerica the Aztecs, the Maya as well as the Olmecs practiced extensive body modification often for ritual or ceremonial
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - While excavating a stone sanctuary in a pond on the side of a volcano east of Mexico City, archaeologists discovered what appears to be a 1,000-year-old mini
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Located on the slopes in the State of Veracruz, Mexico there is a very intriguing ancient Olmec site known as Tres Zapotes. A Professor of Anthropology who
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - They have been known from time immemorial, as the Serpent People, or People of the Serpent. Collectively, they are all known as the Serpents
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