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The Chaco Culture, centered at Chaco Canyon in what is now New Mexico consumed chocolate in cylindrical vessels similar to those used in Mesoamerica, the nearest source for chocolate was in West Mexico, near what is now Jalisco. In addition, the Chacoans had macaws, copper and tessarae, all of Mesoamerican origin. Despite this, no genetic or local cultural evidence exists for Mesoamerican populations living in the region. Sources: Crown, Patricia L. and W. Jeffrey Hurst 2009, Evidence of cacao use in the Prehispanic American Southwest, PNAS vol. 106, no 7. Schillaci, Michael A. 2003, The Development of Population Diversity at Chaco Canyon, Kiva vol. 68, no. 3. KiteAuraan has a new favorite as of 02:18 on Nov 11, 2015 |
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Cythereal posted:Shakespeare wrote a "I hosed your mom" joke in one of his plays. Keeping up the dick theme, over in Southwest New Mexico a Mimbres Classic Style III bowl dated from 1000-1130 CE shows a giant man with a penis as long as his height, it is being carried by several dwarves. And in a less goofy, but still important fashion for our understanding of the progressive nature of some native cultures relative to their time, the Classic Mimbres also depicted childbirth on their ceramics and there is some evidence that human figures painted wearing clothing and ornaments from both sexes represent a third and possibly fourth gender in Mimbres society that were important members of the community and heavily involved in ritual life. Evidence for this is derived from statistical analysis of depictions of certain clothing and ornaments worn on painted depictions of humans that are almost certainly either male or female based on depicted secondary sexual characteristics. Marit K. Munson did the study on the gender issues in Mimbres, the article title is Sex, Gender, and Status: Human Images from the Classic Mimbres and it's in American Antiquity, Vol. 65, No. 1. The pot with the big dick I believe is illustrated in J.J Brody's "Mimbres Painted Pottery" and there is also some good discussion of Mimbres society, including gender issues in "Mimbres Society" which is edited by Powell-Marti and Patricia Gilman. KiteAuraan has a new favorite as of 11:35 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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