Oaxyctl, an Aztecan 'quimchtin' - meaning mice or mouse - is a term Mesoamerican's used to denote a spy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookspotcentral] Reference

Oaxyctl, an Aztecan ‘quimchtin’ – meaning mice or mouse – is a term Mesoamerican’s used to denote a spy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell – review] Reference

In addition to the chiles, tomatoes and avocadoes so important in Mesoamerican cooking, papaya, mamey and zapote were cultivated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The cuisine of Veracruz: a tasty blend of cultures] Reference

Now, in Mesoamerican cosmology, there were thirteen heavens above the earth, each with its own deity, and nine levels below the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mesoamerican Religions and Multiverses: Part Two] Reference

In several Asian languages, the word for rice and food is the same, and rice was part of the creation myth of many Asian cultures, as corn was in Mesoamerican creation tales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rice: The Gift Of The Other Gods] Reference

Kowalewski, Stephen A. 1992, "The Elite and Assessment of Social Stratification in Mesoamerican Archaeology.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliography For - The Ancient Maya] Reference

He essentially proved the practical limits of Mesoamerican empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]

The OLMECS created the first major Mesoamerican urban society by c.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. Later Primary Civilizations] Reference

Merle Greene Robertson has spent a lifetime chronicling Mesoamerican art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doyenne of Mayanists] Reference

A large-scale collaborative project looks at Mesoamerican pottery sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olmec People, Olmec Art] Reference

The first Mesoamerican discoverers of chocolate were pioneers in many ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christina Pirello: Chocolate: Truly The Food Of The Gods] Reference

A number of halls focus on individual Southwestern and Mesoamerican cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museums: Journey to a Mythic Homeland] Reference

Other Mesoamerican artifacts will be added to Kerr's site in the near future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multimedia: Cyberceramics] Reference

"So the Mesoamerican bronze age would have lasted for ten years?" someone asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]

Beyond the Mesoamerican collection, the galleries return to standard museum fare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latin American Art at LACMA] Reference

It is one of more than 2,000 Mesoamerican sculptures of which she has produced rubbings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doyenne of Mayanists] Reference

"I could never have interpreted this stuff I didn't do Mesoamerican archaeology like you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

These are two of the most fundamental and fiercely debated questions in Mesoamerican archaeology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Americas' First Colony?] Reference

Art motifs, religious symbols, and ritual beliefs were shared with many other Mesoamerican peoples.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Mesoamerican Civilizations] Reference

As a Mesoamerican art historian and iconographer also trained in archaeology, I was drawn to Mayapán.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Great Capital of the Maya] Reference

Small shrines appeared in larger villages, as social ranking became commonplace in Mesoamerican society.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Mesoamerican Civilizations] Reference

Of all the species of Mesoamerican vertebrates, 23 percent live in the coniferous forests of this region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temperate Sierras ecoregion (CEC)] Reference

French antiquarian Eugène Boban with his collection of Mesoamerican artifacts at an 1867 Paris exposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legend of the Crystal Skulls] Reference

Displays of Southwestern and Mesoamerican artifacts side by side to show common traits are not always successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museums: Journey to a Mythic Homeland] Reference

Everyone also knows that there was no possibility of Mesoamerican technology rivaling European technology in any way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]

In the Western Hemisphere, Mesoamerican and Andean civilizations emerged in a context of complex, nonurbanized societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [III. The Postclassical Period, 500-1500] Reference

Though neither ingredient turned up in the Puerto Escondido sherds, both are known from later Mesoamerican chocolate drinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yoo Hoo's Earliest Ancestor] Reference

A tall man with long arms and a lilting voice, Aguilar talks passionately about Mesoamerican culture to anyone who will listen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Extreme Sport] Reference

Others consider the Olmec style a visual expression of deeply rooted religious beliefs shared by numerous Mesoamerican cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Americas' First Colony?] Reference

The Teotihuacan cave may have held particular significance, its four lobes representing the four parts of the Mesoamerican cosmos.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Tomb at Teotihuacan] Reference

We also take into account others that Mesoamerican archaeologists might have been able to recognize its use during pre-Hispanic times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis Begins « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

"You've been doing just what I've been doing -- you've designed the Mesoamerican part of the plan so that only you can possibly do it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]

Still, The Sport of Life and Death gives a solid understanding of the game's place in Mesoamerican culture highlights interpretive issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: Mesoamerica's National Pastime] Reference

From the 1960s there was huge demand in America and Europe for Mesoamerican antiquities, for decorated pottery, gold, jade, stone carvings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

One particularly lovely bowl shows two men (reminiscent of the hero twins so prevalent in Mesoamerican myth) wrestling with a fish monster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museums: Journey to a Mythic Homeland] Reference