Cultures of Soconusco, Mexico and western Guatemala
Mokaya
Pre-Olmec culture
Formative Period sites in Southeastern Mesoamerica, including some important Mokaya sites
Location
Soconusco region in Mexico and parts of the Pacific coast of western Guatemala
Language
Mixe–Zoquean
Mokaya were pre-Olmec cultures of the Soconusco region in Mexico and parts of the Pacific coast of western Guatemala, an archaeological culture that developed a number of Mesoamerica’s earliest-known sedentary settlements.
The Soconusco region is generally divided by archaeologists into three adjacent zones along the coast—the Lower Río Naranjo region (along the Pacific coast of western Guatemala), Acapetahua, and Mazatán (both on the Pacific coast of modern-day Chiapas, Mexico). These three zones are about 50 km apart along the coast, but they are connected by a natural inland waterway, which could have permitted easy communication in prehistoric times.[1]
The term Mokaya was coined by archaeologists to mean "corn people" in an early form of the Mixe–Zoquean language, which the Mokaya supposedly spoke.[2]
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Mokaya were pre-Olmec cultures of the Soconusco region in Mexico and parts of the Pacific coast of western Guatemala, an archaeological culture that developed...
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Harappan phase of the Indus Valley civilization begins c. 1900 BC: The Mokaya along the Pacific coast of present-day Chiapas, Mexico were preparing cacao...
modifications to Sumerian orthography. c. 1900 BC: Cacao is domesticated by the Mokaya in Guatemala. The Harappa Torso is now kept at the National Museum in New...
Nassenstein and Andrea Hollington, (eds.) 51–79. Berlin: de Gruyter. Bosire, Mokaya. 2009. What makes a Sheng word unique? Lexical manipulation in mixed languages...
always made it rich for agriculture, contributing to the flowering of the Mokaya and Olmec cultures, which were based on Theobroma cacao and rubber of Castilla...
peoples as early as 1750 BCE. On the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, a Mokaya archaeological site provides evidence of cocoa beverages dating even earlier...
oldest civilization to appear in what is now modern Chiapas is that of the Mokaya, which were cultivating corn and living in houses as early as 1500 BCE,...
samples dating to 3500 BC. Around 1900 BC, the Mokaya domesticated one of the dozen species of cacao. A Mokaya archaeological site provides evidence of cacao...
Registrar of the High Court. The current Chief Registrar is Winfridah Boyani Mokaya who took office on 25 March 2024. The Constitution identifies the Chief...
has been speculated that the Olmecs derived in part from the neighboring Mokaya or Mixe–Zoque cultures. The Olmecs flourished during Mesoamerica's formative...
peoples as early as 1750 BC. On the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, a Mokaya archaeological site provides evidence of cacao beverages dating even earlier...
BCE–250 CE Unknown culture in La Blanca and Ujuxte, Monte Alto culture, Mokaya culture Early Preclassic 2000–1000 BCE Olmec area: San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán;...
1007/s11356-018-3148-y. PMID 30221322. S2CID 52280860. Blankenship, L. Scott; Mokaya, Robert (2022-02-21). "Modulating the porosity of carbons for improved adsorption...
of the school, it has been served by the following principals: Charles Mokaya (1966–1969) Daniel Mosomi (1970–1973) Musa Mokano (1974–1989) Lazarus Mainye...
6058–6082. doi:10.1002/anie.201000431. PMID 20652916. Blankenship, L. Scott; Mokaya, Robert (2022). "Modulating the porosity of carbons for improved adsorption...
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texts of Third Dynasty of Ur ~1900 BCE: Evidence of chocolate drinks in Mokaya and other pre-Olmec people ~1500 BCE: Rice cultivated in the Niger area...
sites. Chantuto culture was followed by the Barra culture and then the Mokaya people. In relation to the Chantuto people, five sites where located near...
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