A Mother Lode Of Jade Solves Maya Mystery

Seattle PI ^ | 5-22-2002 | William J. Broad

[Bernard Marx]

More like! Any provenance on those pieces? They look semi-Olmec with the standard "Jaguar cleft." Very interesting.

[xcamel]

Only posted as an example of the material - BTW: the vase was a "blue jade" hand-cast checz artisan glass piece.

[blam]

Good link, thanks. These gem folks are about four years late on the news.

[blam]

"One of the things I appreciate about the Western Hemisphere discoveries is that they are usually far less political in nature than Middle Eastern, African, Chinese and European discoveries."

Could be headed that way though.

Vintage Skulls

"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. "

"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."

[Bernard Marx]

These gem folks are about four years late on the news.

Not really. Info on this find has been kicking around since the late 80s and samples of the material were showing up on the U.S. market for years before the announcement. I think they were trying to keep a lid on it to prevent large scale commercial exploitation. A Guatemalan company has been selling carvings for a long time. This piece was published in 2002 after the NYT story broke it to the world. Obviously they'd been studying it for considerable time prior.

[SunkenCiv]

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