An ancient Aztec Death Whistle comes with one of the ... jungle-clad space between known Maya sites may once have been very heavily populated. "Previous research has shown that a large part ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...

The World of Music, Vol. 49, No. 2, Music Archaeology: Mesoamerica (2007), pp. 91-104 (14 pages) This paper reviews the ethnohistoric record of the Aztec music culture that flourished during the Late ...

The motif of the plumed serpent became ubiquitous in Mesoamerican art and icononography, including for both the Aztec and the Maya peoples. Many archaeological sites and sacred sites related to ...