[Aztlan] Red soils in the Yukatan - a short history

[David Hixson]

Thanks so very much to Bruce for all of that wonderful
info.

Just a side-note...  Bruce and John Hoopes mentioned
the red soils (especially those with finer clay
particles in caves) may have been used in the creation
of ceramics.  I would also point out that the modern
Maya use deeper deposits of Kancab Luum in the
northern plains and in the Puuc area for the daub in
their wattle-and-daub apsidal houses.  I helped a man
near Chunchucmil cart buckets of Kancab clay from
where he excavated it to his newly constructed house. 
Presuming a large and densely settled precolumbian
landscape, and the vast numbers of perishable
structures that must have existed at any given time,
this may have been an extremely common use of the
Kancab soils.

Again, thanks to Bruce for taking the time to pen that
wonderful synopsis.

-Dave


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