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Retro: Large Carved Stone Head Rediscovered in Guatemala

November 7, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

from Socyberty

by mitchey179 in Social Sciences, August 4, 2012

Originally discovered in the 1950’s, a large carved stone head has been found again deep in the jungles of Guatemala.   The stone head was rumored to have been destroyed several decades ago but a good number of eye witnesses have recently come forward claiming they have seen and know where the object is located.   A team of archaeologists and scientists from several Guatemalan Universities are planning on an expedition to confirm these reports and plan on announcing their findings once they return.. . . Read Complete Report

 

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Pictorial history-map of village in Mexico rediscovered

July 7, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Photo: Detail of the codice. In a 1917 letter to the AGS, the seller, California mining engineer A. E. Place, wrote: “Were it not for the fact that I am forging into business here, after having lost nearly all my property in Mexico, I would not sell the map at any price.” [Credit: Alan Magayne-Roshak] SOURCE

from Archaeology News Network

July 7, 2012

Posted by TANN

A rare 17th-century Latin American document that was “lost” for nearly a century resurfaced earlier this year. The kicker: It was right where it should have been all along — in the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).

But it’s a wonder that the document — a pictorial history-map of Santa Catarina Ixtepeji, a village in Mexico — was rediscovered at all.

The 7-foot-long painted scroll is one of the few known pictorial documents that contain text in the indigenous Zapotec language. It had been in the hands of private collectors early in the 20th century, including California mining engineer A.E. Place, who sold it to the AGS in 1917 for $350.. . . Read Complete Report

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