I would encourage breaking away from this notion that “Civilization A was X years behind Civilization B despite being contemporaries”, since development isn’t really a “linear tech tree”. As /u/[deleted] notes (link upcoming):

There's no force pushing technology to "advance" in linear progression: This is really hard for many modern Westerners to wrap their heads around. In our culture we tend to see technology as something that moves "forward" or "backward" from "primitive" to "advanced". In fact, this is a cultural value that we've placed on technology traceable back to the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, and not an intrinsic property of technology itself.

i recommend the whole FAQ section about Technology and Civilization in the Americas—and anyone has anything more to add, go for it!—but here are a few older answers you may find interesting (not all about Mesoamerica specificaly, though):

• What differences caused the Mesoamerican societies to be much more successful than Eastern North American societies? by /u/Reedstilt
• The native americans and several other cultures did not experience the same technological advancements as europe. What has caused this diffrence? by /u/[deleted]
• Why were Native American civilizations so far behind their counterparts throughout the world? by /u/The_Alaskan