Before the pandemic, the long-sought ruins of Sak Tz’i’, a small but influential Mesoamerican kingdom, were discovered on a cattle ranch in Mexico. This summer archaeologists returned to excavate it.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/science/archaeology-mayan-mexico.html
Category: History
Codices, Glyphics, Anthropology, Archeology, Oral Tradition
The Aztec Empire: Society, Politics, Religion, and Agriculture – History
The Aztec Empire was the last of the great Mesoamerican cultures. Between A.D. 1345 and 1521, the Aztecs extended over the central Mexican highlands.
— Read on www.historyonthenet.com/aztec-empire-society-politics-religion-agriculture
The sacred, religious, and cannibalistic origins of pozole
Years later, after colonization, when the Spanish prohibited rituals, human flesh was substituted with pork.
— Read on www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/sacred-religious-and-cannibalistic-origins-pozole
Humans
Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” rarely seen masterpieces and recent discoveries trace the life cycle of the gods.
— Read on www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/gods-divinity-maya-art
The Problem With Indigeneity – [ mexika.org ]
Mexika.org is proud to present a series of articles which serve to articulate the goals and positions of Yankwik Mexikayotl. Please subscribe to our site for more. THE PROBLEM WITH INDIGENEITY By Tlakatekatl [Update: Edited for clarity on 12/18/2019] In a recent essay entitled, “Towards A ‘Yankwik Mexikayotl’: A Definitional Essay,” I introduced a working…
— Read on mexika.org/2014/09/17/the-problem-with-indigeneity/
What can ancient cities teach us about surviving climate change?
There’s a gap between what we need to know about planning cities for the future and what we do know. Cities of the past can help fill it.
— Read on slate.com/technology/2021/11/ancient-cities-climate-change-urban-resilience-adaptation.html
That famous year 1 Reed and the times of prophecy – MayanCalendar.net
That famous year 1 Reed and the times of prophecy – MayanCalendar.net
— Read on mayancalendar.net/that-famous-year-1-reed-and-the-times-of-prophecy/
Memories of Chichén Itzá – Anthropology News
Residents hold their own experiences of growing up in Pisté and Chichén Itzá in tension with official narratives.
— Read on www.anthropology-news.org/articles/memories-of-chichen-itza/
Faith versus fact: the problem of Native American creationism and paleoanthropology in North America – Why Evolution Is True
This article in Quillette caught my eye because it was about science—paleoanthropology—and its conflict with faith. The authors are a pair of anthropologists who have written a book about the topic, which is the perennial conflict between scientists on the one hand and Native Americans claiming ancient human remains that, they say, are their ancestors.…
— Read on whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/06/14/faith-versus-fact-the-problem-of-native-american-creationism-and-paleoanthropology-in-north-america/