Mesoamerican

[me-zoh-uh-mer-i-kuhn, mee-]

adjective

1. Archaeology.,  of or relating to the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.

noun

1. a person belonging to any of the pre-Columbian civilizations that flourished in the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua.

Example Sentences

There are decorative patterns at the archway entrance of the library that were modeled after Labna, a Mesoamerican archaeological site that’s known as a portal.

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Corn was born here about 9,000 years ago, when Mesoamerican farmers first started to domesticate the wild grass known as teosinte.

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“One of the things that you see in ancient Mesoamerican and Mayan mythology is that they’re always twins,” he explains.

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“We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art,” organized by three curators, attempts something related, examining the cosmological significance of color.

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The scent of copal, a tree resin used by Mesoamerican cultures for spiritual, medicinal and practical rituals, wafts through the space.

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