The dental mutilation was a cultural practice in Mesoamerica, being accepted that it was used to re-enforce symbolic-social aspects that had to be manifested in an individual. In the human osteological collection from Tantoc, an archaeological site in San Luis…

The Colombian Ministry of Education to grant Educational accreditation for academic excellence, establishes as a fundamental aspect the assessment and monitoring of impacts generated by the environmental engineering graduates and solutions that provides the degree to the local needs. Therefore,…

The Coordination of Environmental Management of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, "CGA”, has the task of managing all programs and projects that underpin the functioning of the Environmental Management System, and works with four main programs: Environmental Education,…

In this paper, we present the experience of an integration project that was developed during the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semesters of the programs in Environmental Engineering at the Universidad del Mar in Mexico. It consisted of a series of…

An important issue in pre-Columbian art historical studies is the interconnection between dierent dimensions of Mexican reality, i.e. pre-Columbian and modern Mexico, as it reveals many notions and misconcep-tions about its pre-Hispanic past—particularly in regards to the Mexica, also known…

El conocimiento tradicional (CT) integra riqueza local y culturalmente compartida por los integrantes de una comunidad. Incluye información referente a creencias, sistemas de valores, respeto y cuidado al medio ambiente, así como el conocimiento y manejo de la flora nativa…

Since the first Computer and Internet based learning developments, there has been a recurrent idea: the creation of reusable didactic pieces, developed once and used many times in instructional processes, called learning objects. These elements promised to constitute knowledge bases…

The research problem dealt with in the first part of this text concerns the existence of a Mayan theory of knowledge based on its own historical evolution through a mind perspective that involves an acceptance of intercultural difference. The text…

The Libro de medicinas, muy seguro.... (1751) is an unpublished source of great importance for our knowledge of traditional Yucatec medicine, both because of its early date as well as the fact that it reflects a synthesis between purely indigenous…

Openness in organizations to obtain new ideas or create alternative paths to market, enables the identification of new elements in innovation management. This article sets out how, as of the liberalization of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in…