Adobe architecture at PaquiméSedig et al. 2024, © Antiquity Publications Ltd.
Posted on 08/16/2024 10:59:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Adobe architecture at PaquiméSedig et al. 2024, © Antiquity Publications Ltd.
There are a couple more Mayan articles coming.
I gotta ask. What's the in between here?!
Or to keep the gods from visiting destruction on the area because of their incest?
Oh no, they killed their healthy child in a ritual sacrifice to show off for the neighbors. That makes SO much more sense.
Think three grandparents rather then four. Uncle/niece perhaps.
Did they shower with their daughters?
One of my cousins was married to an archaeologist-in the early 1980’s, he was in charge of one of the digs at Casas Grandes, so my husband and got hired on his crew on our vaca-to dig/sift/bag and document literally every bit of trash, etc. It was a wonderful experience to hold a part of the far past-and maybe my native ancestry literally in your hands.
Casas Grandes was sacked in a tribal war in the early 1300’s and the survivors took off to the Sierra Madre area-the burn marks on the buildings and livestock pens, scattered bones, etc were easy to see-it was obviously brutal.
The whole place is spooky as hell-especially the House of the Well (which is what it is-a building with a big well inside)-there is no amount of money that would keep me there after dark-there are shadows, rustling noises, and that feeling of being watched. But if I had the chance to go on a dig there again, I probably would...
Human sacrifice was going on everywhere centuries ago for all sorts of reasons-none good-people were ignorant-and if they envied or feared you, they might leave you alone-or they might sacrifice or kill you one way or another. The druids burned people in cages-and the Spanish Inquisition tortured all non-Catholics-most to death, people in Europe and the New World burned people they called witches and heretics, etc, etc...
Sounds like a great vacation!
Just keepin’ it in the family.
Uncle-niece?
half-siblings. Uncle/Aunt.
It was-we had visited the cousin’s husband on digs before, and got to work for a few hours, but those were well-known sites in NM, not in another country, and we didn’t get to work there for 2 weeks. I did get to keep something from Casas Grandes-a perfect little arrowhead less than 2 inches long-the kind some call a bird point-it was in some dirt and ashed sifted by a big firepit. I would not have kept it if it had been near any human bones-that would be bad luck...
I don’t take hints. I’m a dude.
Impossible.
They were nice people who collected flowers and played drums and did drugs.
Kind of early hippies.
You probably don’t stop to ask for directions, and wound up driving right by this place in Mexico.
Bad ‘shrooms.
Me in Mehico? Hilarious.
They’ll get you every time.
Guadalajara won’t do, or that’s what I heard anyway.
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