Feathers, especially those from colorful tropical birds, were among the most highly prized materials in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Likewise the craft of featherworking was among the most esteemed in the Mesoamerican world. Feathers were fashioned into exquisite adornments for nobles and gods, worked into fancy textiles for the elite, and provided embellishment for the shields and military costumes of highly achieved warriors. This presentation focuses on the manner in which feathers traveled from hand to hand in the complex process of acquisition, manufacture, and finally consumption during the last century before the Spanish conquest. Emphasis is on the circulation of feathers through well-established channels of tribute, marketplace exchange, “foreign” trade, and elite reciprocity.
— Read on journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/1387
Category: History
Codices, Glyphics, Anthropology, Archeology, Oral Tradition
Toltecs
What is the meaning of the word Aztlan?
What is the meaning of the word Aztlan?
— Read on www.mexica.net/aztlan.php
San Felipe Aztlan, Nayarit
The Olmec were not African
There are many people who claim that the Olmec of Mexico are Africans who have occupied the Americas before the Colombian Exchange. That’s simply 1000% wrong. Do a search and you will find tons of information on the subject but most if not all results will lack any credibility or even a reference as to where they came up with this theory.Their most compelling argument is that the large Olmec head statues simply look as if they are similar to Africans.The truth is that the Olmec have descendants that look even more similar to the statutes than any African.Its also worth mentioning that from DNA studies,science has proven that there is no relation to the Olmec and Africans,yet there are Professors at Universities that insist otherwise.
The Olmec were not African
A Polish professor of anthropology, Dr, Wiercinski came to the conclusion by comparing skull types from Asians, Europeans and Africans without having any samples of Native Americans and lacking any DNA evidence. Any connection found with Africans and Indigenous people in the Americas is found through genetic markers that prove that they were not pre 1492. Afrocentric ideologists contaminate research by filling the internet with garbage that supports their racist agenda.
OLMEC COLOSSAL HEADS ARE OF MESOAMERICAN AND NON-AFRICAN ORIGIN | Amandala Newspaper
OLMEC COLOSSAL HEADS ARE OF MESOAMERICAN AND NON-AFRICAN ORIGIN | Amandala Newspaper
— Read on amandala.com.bz/news/olmec-colossal-heads-are-of-mesoamerican-and-non-african-origin/
‘Before Columbus’: Roots of a Dispute – The Washington Post
‘Before Columbus’: Roots of a Dispute – The Washington Post
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/05/09/before-columbus-roots-of-a-dispute/ed4dd935-47e2-4287-a323-99d437706bde/
Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above Its Weight’ – The New York Times
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
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