I don’t know much more than you do but there were certainly “Aztec” (meso american) influences in this part of the world by the time the hohokam were roaming about, we’ve found meso american artifacts like mirrors in hohokam villages, and get ready bc this is gonna blow ya mind but... the o’odham and Hopi speak uto-aztecan languages.
As a Native American living in the Southwest, I sincerely wish, recovered artifacts and bone of the Ancient Ones, are treated with the upmost respect and care, wherever they may be. .. it is really a sign of disrespect to Native Americans, to dig up things of the past. But research studies must be conducted to study the past.
Your ancestors are long dead and gone. They really do not care if we rummage through their old garbage. These jars are the shit they abandoned and left behind.
I don't believe the Dine'/ Navajo want to touch items belonging to the dead or the dead, themselves. I respect that custom. But, that's why they've all been looted. It would be so cool to have all of the items remain in place. All of those bones taken to the Smithsonian and shoved away in cartons.
The reason that sites and their artifacts have been looted is because people are greedy and they want the money these items can bring on the black market. Yes, Navajos do not wish to touch belongings of the dead, however other cultures do not have the same problem and their ancestor's artifact have been stolen as well.
It would be nice to have a follow up of cacao use in the Southwest , other than Chaco, when your continued testing are completed.
anyone else here because of Arky331?
Who?
Since there was evidence of cacao in Chaco, I wonder if the Mayan or Aztec language was spoken in Chaco also, and what language was spoken in Chaco
I don’t know much more than you do but there were certainly “Aztec” (meso american) influences in this part of the world by the time the hohokam were roaming about, we’ve found meso american artifacts like mirrors in hohokam villages, and get ready bc this is gonna blow ya mind but... the o’odham and Hopi speak uto-aztecan languages.
Wow. Just amazing.
Chaco...latt?
Jesus loves chacolate
Choco .. Latte!
you had me at chocolate..
As a Native American living in the Southwest, I sincerely wish, recovered artifacts and bone of the Ancient Ones, are treated with the upmost respect and care, wherever they may be. .. it is really a sign of disrespect to Native Americans, to dig up things of the past. But research studies must be conducted to study the past.
Your ancestors are long dead and gone. They really do not care if we rummage through their old garbage. These jars are the shit they abandoned and left behind.
I don't believe the Dine'/ Navajo want to touch items belonging to the dead or the dead, themselves. I respect that custom. But, that's why they've all been looted. It would be so cool to have all of the items remain in place. All of those bones taken to the Smithsonian and shoved away in cartons.
The reason that sites and their artifacts have been looted is because people are greedy and they want the money these items can bring on the black market. Yes, Navajos do not wish to touch belongings of the dead, however other cultures do not have the same problem and their ancestor's artifact have been stolen as well.
As far as I’m concerned history belongs to the living.