Mesoamerican

American  

[me-zoh-uh-mer-i-kuhn, mee-] / ˌmɛ zoʊ əˈmɛr ɪ kən, ˌmi- /

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.

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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.

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Mesoamerican

The site, situated northeast of Mexico City, is among the premier Mesoamerican archaeological zones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

A professor of Mesoamerican art and writing at the University of Texas at Austin, Mr. Stuart compares the challenges of 19th-century Mayanists and Egyptologists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024

Like virtually every other Mesoamerican society, the inhabitants of the Huasteca played what is simply known today as “the ballgame,” in the time before the Spanish conquest.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

Mesoamerican corn and beans took 3,000 and 4,000 years, respectively, to cover the 700 miles from Mexico’s farmlands to the eastern U.S. farmlands.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond