Jim, this presentation is truly outstanding. Your monumental effort to bring this synthesis into being is truly appreciated. I especially love your copious graphics and maps, which look great on a big TV. There is so much to digest here, so I must have watched it four or five times already. Thanks again!
Good channel! Ceremonial cacao drinking ceramics were found in utah, new mexico and colorado as part of the chaco phenomenon during some of the early "excavations" in the early 20th century. The american archeologists did not recognize them as such (impossible, savages having long distance trade routes. pshh). It took a woman archeologist in the early 2000s going through some east coast museum storage to suggest getting them tested for cacao residue. The gender i think is important here as an aside about how archeology has changed soo much in the last 100 years. Or most has, I did recently see a prominent archeologist defend clovis first using fancy distribution plots.
Sorry for the ignorant questions. Is there any explanation why the use of metals reached to Mesoamerica so late? Weren't metals used in South America already much earlier times? Weren't metal objects used as merchandise on the Pacific Coast trade routes in earlier times?
Jim, this presentation is truly outstanding. Your monumental effort to bring this synthesis into being is truly appreciated. I especially love your copious graphics and maps, which look great on a big TV. There is so much to digest here, so I must have watched it four or five times already. Thanks again!
Good channel! Ceremonial cacao drinking ceramics were found in utah, new mexico and colorado as part of the chaco phenomenon during some of the early "excavations" in the early 20th century. The american archeologists did not recognize them as such (impossible, savages having long distance trade routes. pshh). It took a woman archeologist in the early 2000s going through some east coast museum storage to suggest getting them tested for cacao residue. The gender i think is important here as an aside about how archeology has changed soo much in the last 100 years. Or most has, I did recently see a prominent archeologist defend clovis first using fancy distribution plots.
Exelent work, thank you very much, the information that I needed for my documentary photography project
Muchas gracias, Hugo. I enjoyed putting this program together. You are free to use any of the graphics I created.
The big picture.
Several options. Lots of work to be done...
Great info..👏🏼
At 58:13 showing the different phenotypes of the Mayas..👏🏼
Sorry for the ignorant questions. Is there any explanation why the use of metals reached to Mesoamerica so late? Weren't metals used in South America already much earlier times? Weren't metal objects used as merchandise on the Pacific Coast trade routes in earlier times?
1:04:00 Vikings as far south as Florida-wow!
That's what former chief of the Seminole tribe, James Billy, told me personally years ago.