Several Mesoamerican sites have this alignment, including San Jose Mogote.

Several large, centralized civilizations developed in the Western Hemisphere: Norte Chico, Chavin, Nazca, Moche, Huari, Chimu, Tiahuanaco, Aymara and Inca in the Central Andes ( Peru and Bolivia ); Muisca in Colombia ; Olmecs, Toltecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Aztecs and the Mesoamerican Mayas in Central America.

Several cultures have myths related to lunar eclipses.

Historically, some cultures and religions accommodated, institutionalized, or revered, same-sex love and sexuality ; Several congregations have undertaken a series of organizational, procedural and practical steps to become acknowledged as a " Welcoming Congregation ": a congregation which has taken specific steps to welcome and integrate gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender ( GLBT ) members.

Several cultures whose languages use writing systems other than alphabets do not share the Western notion of signatures per se: the " signing " of one's name results in a written product no different from the result of " writing " one's name in the standard way.

Several cultures throughout the world are known to consume insects.

Several of the major Greek goddesses also were identified with Tanit by the syncretic, interpretatio graeca, which recognized as Greek deities in foreign guise the deities of most of the surrounding non-Hellene cultures.

Several pre-Columbian codices produced by the Mayan and Mixtec cultures are clear examples of sequential art.

Several indigenous cultures of the Americas had also developed their own writing systems, including the Mayan and Nahuatl.

Several cultures, however, have revised this and now have forms of married lay teachers, who are distinct from the celibate clergy.

Several cultures have used species of Iridaceae as food, ornamental, condiment or medicinal plants.

Several cultures, including the matriarchal Pelbar, join together in the Heart River Federation.

Several Native American cultures, such as the Ojibwa, consider wild rice to be a sacred component in their culture.

* Several cultures have marked points as Land's End or the End of the World

Several cultures around the world practiced whaling with drogues, including the Ainu, Inuit, Native Americans, and the Basque people of the Bay of Biscay.

Several cultures have devised traditional acorn-leaching methods, sometimes involving specialized tools, that were traditionally passed on to their children by word of mouth.

Several of the major Greek goddesses were identified with Tanit by the syncretic interpretatio graeca, which recognized as Greek deities in foreign guise the gods of most of the surrounding non-Hellene cultures.

Several other publications by Harris examine the cultural and material roots of dietary traditions in many cultures, including Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture ( 1975 ); Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture ( 1998-originally titled The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig ) and his co-edited volume, Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits ( 1987 ).

Several factors came together at that time-Britain's entry into the European Economic Community in 1973 ended favourable terms of agricultural trade, whilst New Zealanders themselves developed a taste for wine as local drinking laws changed and cheap air travel exposed them to different cultures.

Several South American cultures have used Brugmansia as a treatment for unruly children, that they might be admonished directly by their ancestors in the spirit world, and thereby become more compliant.

Several Sámi shamanistic beliefs and practices were similar to those of some Siberian cultures.

Several surprising characteristics of yoiks can be explained by comparing the music ideals, as observed in yoiks and contrasted to music ideals of other cultures.

Several hoaxes were associated with the mound builder cultures.

* Several cultures of the Middle East at various periods

Several lines of evidence led to a theory that climate change caused a severe drought in the region from 1276 to 1299, forcing these agriculture-dependent cultures to move on.

" Several cases of sati occur each year, and even when death is avoided, widowhood in high-caste Hindu cultures can still have unfortunate consequences by Western standards.

Several materials or combinations of materials can be used to construct a satisfactory feed bunk.

Several scholars have argued that Acts used material from both of Josephus ' works, rather than the other way around, which would indicate that Acts was written around the year 100 or later.

Several terms are used to refer to features and components of bones throughout the body:

Several species of fungi can be used for bioleaching.

Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the beginning and the middle of the 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s.

Several terms are commonly used to characterize the general physical and chemical properties of the chemical elements.

Several brain imaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI, have been used for physical measures of brain activity in these studies.

" Several different terms are used in different situations, several of which are of modern origin:

Several languages other than English also have both religious and non-religious ways of identifying the era used in dates.

Several incomplete sets of this form of croquet are known to exist, and one complete set is still used for demonstration games in the West of Scotland.

Several countries have used a system which is known as short form / long form.

Several orders, usually based upon the composite order and only varying in the design of the capitals, have been invented under the inspiration of specific occasions, but have not been used again.

Several of them used the name CPSU.

Several other quantities can be used to describe the composition of a mixture.

Several wall markings found in caves in Peru show drums used in various aspects of societal life.

Several well-known criteria can be used to establish a probable diagnosis.

Several classic data sets have been used extensively in the statistical literature:

Several groups claim that the military base on Diego Garcia has been used by the US government for transport of prisoners involved in the controversial extraordinary rendition program, an allegation formally reported to the Council of Europe in June 2007.

Several techniques are used by DJs as a means to better mix and blend recorded music.

Several of the Pokémon games have also received director's cuts and have used the term " extension ," though " remake " and " third version " are also often used by many fans.

Several of his poems have passed into the cultural mainstream, and his work has been used by authors, musicians and film and television writers.

Several of these communities do not actually border the Detroit River ; the term " Downriver " is used to refer to a cluster of 18 suburban communities that lie to the southwest of the city of Detroit and to the west of the Detroit River.

Several clips from the film are comically used during the theater scene in The Last Dragon.

Several perspectives have been established within which the theories of learning used in educational psychology are formed and contested.