[Aztlan] Allendale

[martha noyes]

Kwe and aloha Mike,

Didn't mean to send a private email - oops.

There have been a few outside archaeologists at Allendale, but perhaps not enough to pass science muster.

The reason I replied, and please pardon me, as crossly as I did is that there tends to be so little connection between indigenous knowledge and western scientific inquiry, rather as if indigenous knowledge is not worth considering.  But, as regards Mayan studies, there has been considerable gathering of extant Maya people's knowledge, and that interplay of indigenous knowledge and western inquiry has born a good amount of fruit.  

Perhaps it'd be similarly valuable to pay some heed to other indigenous people's knowledge.  In my work with Hawaiian myths I've found that the native knowledge is profound and deeply instructive, to the point of such sophistication that it surely is "science," even if it is arranged in classifications the west isn't accustomed to.

I've had the opportunity to have several astronomers (University of Hawaii IFA, Bishop Museum, and the Imiloa Center in Hilo which is associated both with the Mauna Kea observatories and with University of Hawaii at Hilo) check my findings and so far the dates are on the money.  Granted, ethnoastronomy isn't archaeology, but eventually we'll see that the ethnoastronomy and the archaeology refer to one another on the ground here, just as they do in Central America, and as they probably do elsewhere.

Thanks for replying to my post and putting it and your reply on the list.  

martha