Mesoamericanadj.n.

1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 786 The term ‘South Mexican–Central American’ would..be more accurate..but it is cumbersome; and Meso-American has been suggested and employed as a convenient coinage that runs no risk of being confused.

1956 R. Redfield Peasant Society & Culture 74 Those Meso-American peoples.

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 101 Jicaque, a Mesoamerican language.

1967 L. Deuel Conquistadors without Swords xv. 189 Its importance as a prototype of Mesoamerican architecture may well be compared to the step pyramid of Zoser in early dynastic Egypt.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 935/1 The only linguistic groups that played any great part in Meso-American civilization were the Mixtec and Zapotec.

1998 Nature Conservancy Jan. 7 (caption) The Conservancy is working with partners to create a Mesoamerican greenway linking a chain of wildlife reserves across the Central American isthmus.

1964 Science 1 May 501/1 The Indians of the Intermediate area are notable mainly for their skill in working precious metals, in which they surpassed the Mesoamericans, and for their art.

1971 C. H. Gordon Before Columbus 1. 30 The breathtaking achievements of the Mesoamericans could not be..the works of savages who lifted themselves up by their bootstraps.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 935/1 The Meso-Americans reached stages of development unknown away from those areas.

1987 National Geographic Mag. Sept. 312/1 For 3,000 years Mesoamericans used jade amazingly like their oriental counterparts.

1990 D. Carrasco Relig. Mesoamer. v. 129 In Mexico there were close to 25 million people in 1500. By 1600 only 1 million native Mesoamericans were still alive.

1948 A. O. Shepard Plumbate viii. 143 Plumbate ware has long been the Mesoamericanists' enigma.

1967 Polit. Sci. Q. 82 653 The institution is what Meso-Americanists call the ‘cargo system’ or ‘ceremonial ladder’.

1987 Amer. Anthropologist 89 1005/2 Mesoamericanists will be pleased with The Southeast Maya Periphery.