Restored partion of Teotihucan architecture showing the typical Mesoamerican use of red paint complemented on gold and jade decoration upon marble and granite.

Unlike previous Majapahit temples that demonstrate typical Hindu architecture of high-rise towering structure, the shape of these temples are step pyramid, quite similar to Mesoamerican pyramids.

Mesoamerican architecture is divided into three eras, Pre-Classic, Classic, and Post-Classic.

Mound building was a central feature of the public architecture of many Native American and Mesoamerican cultures from Chile to Minnesota.

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Mesoamerican pyramids, pyramid-shaped structures, are an important part of ancient Mesoamerican architecture.

* Mesoamerican architecture

Category: Mesoamerican architecture

There was an independent and limited invention of copper and bronze smelting by the Incas in South America and the Mesoamerican civilization in West Mexico ( see Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ).

Anahuac ( Nahuatl: Ānāhuac ) is an ancient name for a Mesoamerican, particularly Aztec, area or areas, usually identified as located within or even coterminous with the Valley of Mexico.

The Aztecs were Nahuatl speaking groups living in central Mexico and much of their mythology is similar to that of other Mesoamerican cultures.

When used about ethnic groups the term " Aztec " refers to several Nahuatl speaking peoples of central Mexico in the postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, especially the ethnic group that had a leading role in establishing the hegemonic empire based at Tenochtitlan, the Mexica.

It was first cultivated in Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerican classical civilizations.

* The name of an Mesoamerican obsidian source in Mexico.

The Codex, however, was studied by approximately twenty experts in various specialties, including the Physics Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, Charles E. Dibble of the University of Utah, as well by experts in graphology from the Bank of Mexico ; the findings all indicate authenticity of the document and 16th century origin.

In the Mesoamerican concept of urbanism, Tollan and other language equivalents serve as a metaphor, linking the bundles of reeds and rushes that formed part of the lacustrine environment of the Valley of Mexico and the large gathering of people in a city.

Mayahuel () is the female divinity associated with the maguey plant among cultures of central Mexico in the Postclassic era of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology, and in particular of the Aztec cultures.

Huehueteotl (" Old god "; aged god in Nahuatl ) is a Mesoamerican deity figuring in the pantheons of pre-Columbian cultures, particularly in Aztec mythology and others of the Central Mexico region.

He has attributes characteristic of similar Mesoamerican deities associated with rain, thunder and lightning, such as Tlaloc of central Mexico, and Chaac ( or Chaak ) of the Maya civilization.

The set of day signs used in central Mexico is identical to that used by Mixtecs, and to a lesser degree similar to those of other Mesoamerican calendars.

-A Mesoamerican empire centered in the valley of Mexico.

* Maya ,-A Mesoamerican people of southern Mexico and Northern Central America.

* The Plaza of Mesoamerican Heritage has sculptures by Meliton Salas Rodriguez, of Guadalajara, Mexico.

The museum exhibits over 1150 pieces from different Mesoamerican periods, including Mayan steles, ceramic dogs from Colima and stone faces from the Gulf of Mexico coast.

* Mesoamerican pine-oak forests ( El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua )

* Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System ( Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico )

The second contribution is the exploration of Mexico and the publication of many examples of Maya and Aztec sculpture, although errors in his illustrations fostered misconceptions about Mesoamerican civilizations and contributed to Mayanism.

It continues to be used today in Indigenous cultures of Mexico and Central America that were part of the ancient Mesoamerican region for spiritual and health reasons.

The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures: the civilizations of Mexico and Central America, in four volumes.

Chinampa ( ) is a method of ancient Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangle-shaped areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.

The name refers to a particular hill in southern Mexico which is believed to have been an important shrine in the jaguar cult throughout several eras of Mesoamerican history.

* Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, an international conservation initiative for biodiversity protection across southern Mexico and Central America

In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of a cultural complex known as the " Intermediate Area ," between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions.

While there is universal agreement that some Mesoamerican people practiced human sacrifice, there is a lack of scholarly consensus as to whether cannibalism in pre-Columbian America was widespread.

Central America is part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, which extends from northern Guatemala through central Panama.

The Classic period of Mesoamerican civilization corresponds to the height of the Maya civilization, and is represented by countless sites throughout Guatemala, although the largest concentration is in Petén.

This period is characterized by heavy city-building, the development of independent city-states, and contact with other Mesoamerican cultures.

The Toltec culture is an archaeological Mesoamerican culture that dominated a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo in the early post-classic period of Mesoamerican chronology ( ca 800 – 1000 CE ).

The date of the beginning of the " Sixth World " is based on the ancient Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which when Shadowrun was developed was correlated as finishing a 5200 year long cycle on December 24, 2011.

The concept of world trees is a prevalent motif in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cosmologies and iconography.

It is supposed that Mesoamerican sites and ceremonial centers frequently had actual trees planted at each of the four cardinal directions, representing the quadripartite concept.

Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs, and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1520s.

Chac-Mool is the name given to a type of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican stone statue.

The Toltec culture is an archaeological Mesoamerican culture that dominated a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo, in the early post-classic period of Mesoamerican chronology ( ca 800-1000 CE ).

* May 21 – A Mesoamerican ballgame court is dedicated at the Mayan city of Chinkultic.

* The Mesoamerican ballgame court is dedicated at Uxmal.

For the same reason the notion of " Aztec civilization " is best understood as a particular horizon of a general Mesoamerican civilization.

Maya mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles.

The creation of humankind is concluded by the Mesoamerican tale of the opening of the Maize ( or Sustenance ) Mountain by the Lightning deities.

A tamale (, from ) — also tamal — is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa ( a starchy dough, usually corn-based ), which is steamed or boiled in a leaf wrapper.