[Aztlan] Oldest work of art in North America found?

[Elaine Schele]

Listeros,

Brian Stross wrote a paper on the symbolism of the sacrum bone called
"The Mesoamerican Sacrum Bone: Doorway to the Otherworld" that is
located at:
http://research.famsi.org/aztlan/uploads/papers/stross-sacrum.pdf

Elaine

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM, David Hixson<chunchucmil at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Allan and fellow Listeros,
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> The Tequixquiac Sacrum is also a commonly referenced candidate for the earliest work of art in North America.  I thought I had a photo of it on my website, but apparently not.  Mesoweb has a nice photo with a short description on their website (URL below).  Back in 1998 this carved camelid sacrum sat unlabled in a large case of uncarved pleistocene bones in the early man section of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico city.  I believe it has since been given its own display.
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> http://www.mesoweb.com/features/jpl/113.html
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> -Dave
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> David R. Hixson
> PhD Candidate
> Tulane Anthropology
> www.mesoamerican-archives.com
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>> Then there is the famous engraved mammoth pelvis found at
>> Valsequillo in the 1950s by Juan Armenta Camacho. That
>> engraving was a virtual bestiary of late Pleistocene fauna
>> which included mammoths with 4 tusks (probably gomphotheres
>> which were known to have survived in South America until
>> Paleoamerican times). That engraved bone was featured in
>> Time Magazine before the Classic Valsequillo excavations
>> back in the 1960s.
>>
>> Allan Shumaker
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