[Aztlan] Ilopango eruptions

[Janice Van Cleve]

Question:
Is there any evidence for a major eruption by Ilopango or any of the other
Salvadorian volcanos around the 150-160 CE timeframe?  We know of the big
one in the 240-260 CE timeframe that devastated several SE Maya sites and
interrupted the Kaminajuyu - Caribbean trade route.  One result of that one
may have been an influx of settlers from the affected regions to the Copan
valley.  The reason I ask is that there are two early dates recorded at
Copan - 8.6.0.0.0 and 8.6.0.10.8 - which may indicate the beginnings of an
organized Maya polity and I am looking for anything else that may have been
happening in the area at that time.  Thanks for any light you can shed.

Janice Van Cleve
206-322-2436
Author of "Eighteen Rabbit: The Intimate Life and Tragic Death of a Maya
God-King."  available through Xlibris.com or Amazon.com.  2006