Posted on 01/24/2007 4:48:10 PM PST by blam
Kuelap - The Machu Picchu Of Northern Peru (Chachapoyas - White, blonde haired people)
desplay?
But...but...I thought the indigenous peoples of the world lived in peace and harmony with their environment and their neighbors, and it was only the coming of the evil white man that introduced war to them?
I'm just baffled by this totally unexpected discovery.
Exactly what I was thinking.
The word is CEMETERY. For cripes' sake!
By the way, it's "i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-E-n-c-e." No "A".
Granted, a cemetery may be an ossuary, but it's not necessary.
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These 40 greenstone carvings with distinctive dress and headgear are one of two such sets found in ceremonial caches in the Wari city of Pikillacta in Peru. Twenty of the figures in each set are identical, leading expert Anita Cook to suggest they represent the founders of the Wari Empire. Theyre evidence of the Waris ancestor worship, says Cook. The Wari believed their ancestors were the link between everyday life and the supernatural world.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0206/feature5/zoom3.html
Twenty figures in each set are identical...maybe because they were characters used in a board-game?
Be vewy vewy wari because today we're hunting wabbits.
Hummmmm, the first chess pieces?
BTW, the earliest known board games date back to almost 6,000 BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_game
http://nabataea.net/games3.html
ancient board games site.
Artifact from the Tribute find.
Moche Lizard bowl
Different, but somehow similar. They certainly knew how to make beautiful pottery.
Thanks. Nice addition.
This masonry wall, with an adorned entryway, also served as an aqueduct for the canal (details below), that transported water for the great city of Huari, Piquillakta, upper Urubamba valley, Cusco, Peru.
http://kyapa.tripod.com/agengineering/canaltechnology/canals.htm
Investigations further demonstrate that Cotocotuyoc was defensive in nature, and that it likely became a stronghold for the Wari as the valley occupation destabilized and finally collapsed. The use and abandonment of Cotocotuyoc may be associated with a shift in its water supply, a canal system linking the site to hillside springs
http://www.american.edu/anthro/andean/abstracts.cfm
clickable link to canal site. Why did the image disappear?
http://kyapa.tripod.com/agengineering/canaltechnology/canals.htm
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