Early Meso-American calendar.
Early Meso-American calendar marking the beginning of Ramadan.
Posted on 10/30/2006 6:45:28 PM PST by winodog
MEXICO CITY — Researchers said Thursday they have unearthed what may be one of the earliest calendar entries in Meso-America, a massive stone sculpture that suggests women held important status roles in pre-Hispanic culture.
The monolithic design depicts two decapitated women. Markings on top of the figures appear to depict an entry from, or part of, a 13-month lunar calendar, said archaeologist Guillermo Ahuja, who led the excavation of the monument.
"This would be the first depiction of a calendar or calendar elements in such an early time period," Ahuja said.
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The monolith, which measures more than 25 feet and weighs about 20 tons, was found in March 2005 at the Tantoc ruins in San Luis Potosi state, near Mexico's northern Gulf coast, by construction workers.
Ahuja theorized that the stone's glyph-like inscriptions were carved sometime around 700 B.C., likely by the Huasteco culture and may predate other early calendars by hundreds of years.
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Thanks for the heads-up.
Aren't there older Mesoamerican calendars?
There may be something to Muslim claims that Arabs visited the New World before Columbus.
Not with the Knights Templar or Free Masons. Complete different written history.
As what? Models for "Torsos-R-Us"?
Simply FYI, human sacrifice was common all across the world: in southwestern Asia (Middle East), China, and Northern Europe (which the advent of Christianity destroyed). It is not a phenomenon unique to the Americas.
Helen Thomas was the model.
Decapitated? The Muslims have already been there?
Early Meso-American calendar marking the beginning of Ramadan.
Dec. 21, 2012
Oh my, they must have been uncovered meat left out for the cats.
LOL
I thought it was Dec 25th, but hey. I'll be caught off guard!
If you told me in 1994 that we were six years away form the end of the 5th age, I'd have said, "Mas Tequila!"
So. Uh. "Mas Tequila!"
From 1200 to 800 B.C. the Semitic-speaking Phoenicians
http://home.cfl.rr.com/crossland/AncientCivilizations/Middle_East_Civilizations/Phoenicians/phoenicians.html
Nothing to do with arabs!
http://www.delange.org/IzapaGroupA/IzapaA.htm
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