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The Mystery of Pumpkin Lake: Archaeology students study Indian mound site
Published 6:00 am Sunday, July 31, 2022
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...For a long time archaeology has associated flat top mounds with chieftain like societal organization. They argued that to engineer and build the feat that was a flat top mound, there must have been a powerful person in charge. This was often evidenced by homes that were built on top of the mounds.
Kassabaum suggested that the relationship might be more complicated. Emerging with the studies of earlier periods, is less evidence of homes on top of mounds. It’s possible, Kassabaum said, that the flat top mounds could have been feats of communal cooperation
“It goes against the assumption that you have to be intensely hierarchal to do big, powerful things,” Kassabam said.
The mounds were highly engineered. Whoever created them must have had a detailed understanding of the soil to pack it and plant it in a way that prevented erosion. They also varied the kind of soil they used for different parts of the mound and used intact roots as part structure.
Biases in archaeology, she said, has diverted focus from these soil structures. In that neglect, especially in the United States, people often overlook the incredible engineering of Native American societies. She said it could lead to ongoing prejudices because with knowledge comes respect.
People tunnel their vision in all sorts of ways, whether it is away from the Anno Domini years and Native American history or towards stone and away from dirt, Kassabaum said, “but the past shows us what’s possible.”
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Aug 14, 2022 4:44 pm
ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH ANCIENT OLMEC RELIEFS
ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY (INAH) HAVE UNEARTHED TWO ANCIENT RELIEFS DEPICTING OLMEC RULERS.
The Olmec are the earliest known Mesoamerican civilisation (also referred to as the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica). The name ‘Olmec’ comes from the Nahuatl word: Ōlmēcatl or Ōlmēcah, meaning ‘rubber people’.
The discovery was made in Tenosique, a municipality in the state of Tabasco, Mexico, and dates from the late Olmec horizon (900-400 BC) during the Formative period.
The reliefs are made of limestone and have an approximate diameter of 1.4 metres. Both have a similar iconography, showing a large square-shaped face with a diadem, and glyphs associated with the figure of the jaguar. Beneath the face are a pair of crossed arms, while footprints can be seen on the sides.
Archaeologists have determined that the reliefs originate from the Middle Usumacinta region, located between the mouth of the Chacamax River to the Usumacinta and the mouth of the San Pedro River.
Based on similar reliefs found in Balancán and Villahermosa, the researchers believe that they depict local rulers performing ritual contortionism. This is done by adopting a stance that reduces the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain to achieve a trance-like state.
The team suggests that the Maya adopted this type of Olmec stylism for altars in sites such as Caracol in Belsize, especially the circular reliefs of contortionists after the coastal plains of Tabasco underwent a process of ‘Mayanisation’ around 500-300 BC.
The reliefs are to be transferred to the Pomoná Site Museum which houses a similar Olmec relief from Ejido Emiliano Zapata.
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