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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 137. Chapters: Ometepe, Mesoamerican chronology, Maya religion, Huandacareo, Ihuatzio, Paleo-Indians, Ixcateopan, San Miguel Ixtapan, Ixtlan del Rio, Huamango, Plazuelas, Lambityeco, El Zapotal, Leon Viejo, El Vallecito, Peralta, Huejotla, Calixtlahuaca, El Coporo, La Venta, Balcon de Montezuma, Capacha, La Joya, El Manati, Mesa de Cacahuatenco, El Openo, La Quemada, Laguna de los Cerros, Cantona, Copilco, Cempoala, Cueva Ahumada, Cuahilama, Huatusco, Cuetlajuchitlan, Coatetelco, Chupicuaro, El Chanal, La Proveedora, El Conde, Mesoamerican Linguistic Area, Oxtotitlan, Cerro de la Estrella, Castillo de Teayo, Las Flores, Cuyuxquihui, Codex Azcatitlan. Excerpt: Mesoamerica or Meso-America (Spanish: ) is a region and culture area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries. Prehistoric groups in this area are characterized by agricultural villages and large ceremonial and politico-religious capitals. This culture area included some of the most complex and advanced cultures of the Americas, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Mixtec, Totonac and Aztec among others. Location of Mesoamerica within the Americas.The term Mesoamerica-literally, "middle America" in Greek-was first used by the German ethnologist Paul Kirchhoff, who noted that similarities existed among the various pre-Columbian cultures within the region that included southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras, and the Pacific lowlands of Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. In the tradition of cultural history, the prevalent archaeological theory of the early to middle 20th century, Kirchhoff defined this zone a...
