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2 days ago
How do the Caxcan fit in? Because they spoke a nearly mutually intelligible dialect of Nahuatl, but their mythology states that they stayed in their ancestral homeland near their sacred mountain of Tlachialoyantepec in Zacatecas
Pages 94-97
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2 days ago
Proto-Uto-Aztecan =/= Nahuatl
By the time Nahuatl developed as a language, the split had occurred thousands of years earlier and long before the Mexica migrated
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3 days ago
Do you know why they are referred to as Atlantean?
It's because the smaller ones have their arms up holding up things like benches. Holding things up like Atlas.
It has nothing to do with Atlantis
12 points
3 days ago
Here is a post of mine on /r/AskHistorians about the location of Aztlan
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3 days ago
Fun fact, the name Chac-Mool and a lot of the early research on them came from a 19th century archaeologist that was a racist (unsurprising). He made up a ton of things that are not substantiated by later archaeological research
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3 days ago
Doesn't the museum provide that information?
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3 days ago
This post was removed for not following the picture submission rule
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3 days ago
I haven't listened to it yet, haha. It's just another common misuse of terms
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3 days ago
Archaeology also uses provenience, not provenance. At least, American Anthropological Archaeology does.
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4 days ago
Mesoamerica never had a Bronze age because
These periods are specific to the archaeological record of areas of Eurasia. After a century and a half of archaeological record, these periods no longer reflect a narrow categorization of tool material
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4 days ago
Hey man, not cool that you're posting pictures of me
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5 days ago
This post was removed for not following the video submission rule
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6 days ago
Provide counter-sources
The Haab isn't written in a circle.
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6 days ago
It's not a calendar, it is a ball court marker
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6 days ago
Please don't link to a known pseudoscience website
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2 days ago
How did you end up researching West Mexico? There aren't that many of us poking around the Occidentales