Mesoamerica en · PROPN
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Mesoamérica, coined by German-Mexican anthropologist Paul Kirchhoff in 1943. By surface analysis, meso- + America.
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A pre-Columbian cultural region extending from southern Mexico to roughly the area that comprises modern Honduras and El Salvador.
Intentional skull reshaping is found in burials across Asia, Europe and Mesoamerica.
2023 August 18, Mindy Weisberger, “Long-standing mystery of modified human skulls in ancient Japan solved by new analysis”, in CNN:
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ka შუა ამერიკა (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · bg Мезоамерика (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · es Mesoamérica (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · sv Mesoamerika (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · fr Mésoamérique (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · ka მესოამერიკა (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · pl Mezoameryka (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · ka მეზოამერიკა (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · bn মাঝমার্কিন (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · fi Väli-Amerikka (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · eo Mezameriko (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America) · pt Mesoamérica (a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America)