[Aztlan] Palabor: Pre Clasic site found in Guatemalan highlands

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Rene:

  One of the first things to check out with regard to the stone objects 
is if they have been shaped with metal tools. Metal (steel or iron) 
tools were not available in Mesoamerica so stone work was done with 
other stone tools generally by pecking or by grinding with quartz sand 
or both. Metal tools leave marks where the metal of the tool adheres to 
the surface of the stone being shaped and these marks can be seen with 
a hand held lens sometimes. The other variable here is how was the 
final surface treatment accomplished. If the object was polished than 
the marks of metal tools will be reduced to something that can be only 
seen with a high power binocular scope or even an electron microscope. 
Hope this helps.

 Cheers,

 Hugh G. "Sam" Ball

 And remember:

 "This too Shall Pass!

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Guateweb- Posada Belen <mail at guatemalaweb.com>
 To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
 Sent: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:34:40 -0600
  Subject: [Aztlan] Palabor: Pre Clasic site found in Guatemalan 
highlands

 New, Important Pre clasic site found in Chimaltenango, Guatemala.
  In a sort of a bizarre double historic finding, a pre-clasic ( +/- 800 
B.C) site
  found along with over 214 victims of the anti-comunist 80,s US trained 
army who
  in place fought against the guerrillas trained by Cuba, conflict that 
generated
  over 100,000 dead, and millions of people who lost their houses and 
become
 forced to migrate out of the country.

 Read more at (in Spanish)
 http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/domingo/dfondo.shtml

  A question? does any one knows if the stone rings know in Guatemala as 
"Donas"
  are totaly Spanish or are they a recycled object for use in the wood 
doors of
 colonial houses.
  I ask because I have listen to that they are not pre-colombian, and 
have not
  read anything about, since stone is so hard to date, however I have 
seeing some
  donas worked with pre-columbian faces (but that could be later made to 
add
  market value) also they look so much similar to the cotton spining 
weels wich
  are so avanced in dynamic design that when someone asks or mention 
that "the
  Mayas did not know the weel" makes me think about lerning more over 
the subject.
 I think they did know the weel and used extensively in other ways.

 many thanks for your thoughts

 Rene G. Sanchinelli
 www.posadabelen.com
 www.guatemalaweb.com
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