6 résultats pour "mesoamerica"

• Mesoamerica.

  for cooking. In other regions, the earliest ceramics are more sophisticated technically and aesthetically. At around 1800 BC in the Pacific coastal region of Soconusco (in what is now southeastern Chiapas State, Mexico), the earliest pottery was very complex both in forms and decoration. It seems to have had a social function and beenused primarily for ritual feasting. III MAJOR CIVILIZATIONS Over a period of 3000 years, beginning in about 1500 BC, a number of important cultures emerged in M...

• Mesoamérica - historia.

  Entre el 5000 y el 3000 a.C. la agricultura como dedicación exclusiva reemplazó a la caza y la recolección en Mesoamérica, y la gente comenzó a vivir en pobladospermanentes. Algunas áreas con recursos naturales abundantes podían mantener poblaciones estables que no tenían que recurrir a la agricultura. Por ejemplo, en las tierrasbajas ribereñas del golfo de México y el océano Pacífico, la vida sedentaria se basaba en la pesca y el marisqueo. Algunas regiones montañosas —como el valle de México,m...

• Native Americans of Middle and South America.

  A line that snakes across central Mexico near the Tropic of Cancer forms the northern boundary of Mesoamerica; north of this line rainfall sharply declines and theclimate is much drier. The ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica all arose and developed in the area between this line and the Guatemalan highlands far to the south. Richvolcanic soils are found throughout much of the region. A2 People and Languages Mesoamerica was a great melting pot, home to many peoples and interrelated cultures. In...

• Arte y arquitectura precolombinas - historia.

  tumbas y templos sobre basamentos escalonados, se llevaban a cabo manualmente sin ayuda de ningún tipo de maquinaria. La pirámide precolombina era considerada como algo diferente a su equivalente egipcia, ya que no estaba construida con fines funerarios sino como residencia de unadeidad. Sin embargo, excavaciones recientes confirman de modo reiterado que solían incorporarse tumbas a las pirámides. Los pictogramas de los códices, ( véase Paleografía) permiten suponer que las pirámides tenían gran...

• Maya Civilization.

  destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...

• Maya Civilization - History.

  destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...