[Aztlan] NEW FINDINGS IN THE PUUC REGION OF THE YUCATAN (RE-POST)

[michael ruggeri]

This post was encoded for many so I am re-posting it.

Mike Ruggeri



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Archaeologists George Bay and Tomas Gallareta are investigating the
abandoned Maya site of Kiuic in the Puuc region and are finding that
the Puuc region had been occupied by Maya large scale builders for
2000 years. They are unearthing Maya cities in the Puuc region that
date back to 800 BCE and with large scale monumental architecture.

At Kiuic, they are finding Guatemalan obsidian and Olmec jade and
seeing that the Puuc cities were tied to Maya centers further south
very early. There are now hundreds of large cities that have been
found in the Puuc area of the Yucatan containing hundreds of thousands
of people unknown to researchers until the 1980's.

Kiuic was abandoned in the 10th century and Bey is finding finding
some signs of warfare as an explanation of the collapse at Kiuic. Bey
believes they will find large Maya cities in the Puuc area dating back
to 1000 BCE as they continue to dig.

USA Today has the story here;
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2008-06-22-may...

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