[Aztlan] Baskets, slightly OT

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--
Someone on another list (historical mystery writers) would like to know 
if wicker basketry would "last forty  years or so in ordinary soil, and 
what it would look like to anyone who dug it up.  It's brilliant to have 
wicker samples preserved for 2000 years, but I don't like to extrapolate 
from them, as they seem to have been found in water, bogs, or desert-
dry soil."

Bringing it back to Mesoamerica, I assume that baskets were used by the 
Mayans.  Do we have any samples, or only glyphic evidence?

Metta,
Ivan
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