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question about archeology types

shari - 11-24-2006 at 10:02 AM

Today an amigo came to me with a question about a very unusual find...he found several interesting pieces, figures and a strange rock piece that looked like it had hieroglypics on it. Does anyone here know anything about this stuff or maybe knows someone who does who might want to have a look at these finds?

Capt. George - 11-24-2006 at 10:07 AM

shari

george & deborah back in florida..be here till apr/may then back home to Abreojos...will visit with you then...george

Taco de Baja - 11-24-2006 at 10:40 AM

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Originally posted by shari
Today an amigo came to me with a question about a very unusual find...he found several interesting pieces, figures and a strange rock piece that looked like it had hieroglypics on it. Does anyone here know anything about this stuff or maybe knows someone who does who might want to have a look at these finds?


Can you post a picture?

Unfortunately, there is no Rosetta stone for petroglyphs, pictographs and shaped stones made by the Native Americans who lived in North America. Most analysis is pure guessing, and the very unusual items are usually assigned a "religious significance" :rolleyes:.


A little more is known about the Native Americans from Central America, and parts of southern Mexico, as they had a more advanced society, including a written language, and the Spanish wrote more about them.

Osprey - 11-24-2006 at 11:31 AM

Shari, if you're really interested google up INAH, the Mexican Natural History Department in La Paz and Email/phone/write to Harumi Fujita. They have been studying early man sites in Baja California for years, have made exciting discoveries (not the least of which is the Babisuri site on Isla Espiritu Santo @ 40,000 YBP).

Babasuri

David K - 11-24-2006 at 11:39 AM

Here is one made into a pet on Isla San Jose...



(photo by Alejandra de Baja)

Iflyfish - 11-24-2006 at 04:53 PM

great idea Osprey

Random finds like this can sometimes fill in pieces of the puzzle on ancient peoples. It is the Physical Anthropologists who study these things. I am glad to hear that there is a legitimate resource for finds like these. So often people take them home and their meaning is lost.

So much of the precolumbian history of Mexico and Latin America was melted down and used for guilt on alters.

My hat is off to those amoung us who find the proper places for these finds.

Iflyfish when not eating turkey

Iflyfish - 11-24-2006 at 04:55 PM

P.S.

Often the context of these finds are important in understanding them. Anthropologists take pictures of finds like this in the place where they are found with a pencil or something in the image to help identify size etc.

Iflyfish when not turning over rocks