[Aztlan] El Salvador - Nahuas

[emscott at brick.net]

Heather,

You might try William R. Fowler's book "Evolution of Ancient Nahua
Civilizations: The Pipil-Nicarao of Central America."

Elizabeth Scott


>
> The prehistoric and modern Pipil are from at least three separate cultural
> and language groups that were loosely joined by conquest and later by
> culture [citation needed]. The earliest, a subgroup of a nomadic people
> known as the Nahua, migrated into Central America about 3000 B.C.
> [citation needed] The Nahua later came under the influence of Maya
> culture, perhaps through immigration and conquest. Ruins of limestone
> pyramids built by the Maya between A.D. 100 and 1000 are found in western
> El Salvador. Maya culture and language dominated this area of Mesoamerica
> until the ninth century A.D. Nahua/Maya civilization did not achieve the
> complexity found in the Maya heartland in Mexico and Guatemala, but
> appears to have been vital on a smaller scale [citation needed].> Date:
> Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:59:09 -0400> From: nhopkins at mailer.fsu.edu> To:
> aztlan at lists.famsi.org> Subject: [Aztlan] Achiote> > Two comments: First,
> the quote says it's CAL (i.e., lime), not > achiote, that's used to!
>   kick up the coca, like it's used in Chiapas > with the tobacco that is
> chewed. It helps release the alcaloids. > Second, achiote is used as a
> pigment, as the quote says, and it is also > used as a body pigment,
> which (IMHO) is why we have RED INDIANS; the > Caribbean Indians were
> using it as a body paint; it's also said to be > an insect repellent.> >
> Nick Hopkins> >
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