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Beauty and ugliness in Olmec monumental sculpture
Published 2012-12-01Subjects: “…olmec sculpture…”
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A Study of Olmec Serpentinite: exchange, production, distribution, and consumption during the Early and Middle Formative period in Mesoamerica
Published 2009-09-01Subjects: Get full text
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Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) as medicine in New Spain and Europe, 1500s–1600s
Published 2020-01-01“… The Olmec, Maya and Mexica were familiar with the properties of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) which they used as the main ingredient of beverages served to elites. …”
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Cultivating Positive Health, Learning, and Community: The Return of Mesoamerica’s Quetzalcoatl and the Venus Star
Published 2021-05-01“…For more than 3500 years, since Olmec times (1500–400 BC), the peoples of Mesoamerica have shared with one another a profound way of living involving a deep understanding of the human body and of land and cosmology. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Alpha-1 Orthosteric-Site Binding by a Clade of Central American Pit Vipers (Genera <i>Atropoides, Cerrophidion, Metlapilcoatlus</i>, and <i>Porthidium</i>)
Published 2023-08-01“…We report potent alpha-1 orthosteric site binding in venoms from <i>Atropoides picadoi</i>, <i>Metlapilcoatlus occiduus</i>, <i>M. olmec</i>, <i>M. mexicanus</i>, <i>M. nummifer</i>. …”
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Environmental and Hydrological Changes of Lake Coatetelco in Central Mesoamerica (Southwest Mexico) Over the Holocene and Comparison With Climatic Forcing
Published 2022-06-01“…Variation in seasonal insolation at orbital scales might have forced frequent droughts between ∼6 and 4.2 cal ka BP and the ENSO related short-lived storms possibly led to an unstable hydroclimate after ∼4.2 cal ka BP when the first Olmec settlements commenced in the region. Dissimilarity between this lacustrine archive and speleothems from southwest Mexico for the later part of the Holocene reflected different sensitivities of the geological records to seasonal and-annual precipitation.…”
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Differential Antivenom and Small-Molecule Inhibition of Novel Coagulotoxic Variations in <i>Atropoides, Cerrophidion, Metlapilcoatlus,</i> and <i>Porthidium</i> American Viperid Sn...
Published 2022-07-01“…Pseudo-procoagulant activity (i.e., thrombin-like), characterized by the direct cleavage of fibrinogen to form weak fibrin clots, was evident for <i>Atropoides picadoi, Cerrophidion</i><i>tzotzilorum</i>, <i>Metlapilcoatlus mexicanus, M. nummifer, M. occiduus, M. olmec</i>, and <i>Porthidium porrasi.</i> In contrast, other venoms cleaved fibrinogen in a destructive (non-clotting) manner, with <i>C. godmani</i> and <i>C. wilsoni</i> being the most potent. …”
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