Kathy over at Bermudaonion's Weblog hosts Wondrous Words Wednesday. If you come across a word (or two) while reading that is new to you and would like to share your new knowledge, then hop over to Kathy's place and link up! I've not participated in this one before, but found a delightful definition of Mesoamerica in Bill Bryson's At Home that I had to share. :)
If, ten thousand years ago, you had been asked to guess which area of the world would be the seat of the greatest future civilizations, you would probably have settled on some part of Central or South America on the basis of the amazing things they were doing with food there. Academics call this portion of the New World Mesoamerica, an accommodatingly vague term that could fairly be defined as Central America plus as much or as little of North and South America as are needed to support a hypothesis (page 38).
How interesting! I guess it goes to show the experts don't always know best.
ReplyDeleteMesoamerica? Never heard it before. Thanks for sharing..
ReplyDeleteBTW, I love your headline. Gosh, I should be more observant - after all the numerous visits ..
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