Open To Interpretation
Casa Grandes 2
Paquime
Step Fret
Kopopelli
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To the north and east of Paquime, the Mogollon Puebloan people walked away from ancestral homelands, gave up old traditions, moved to new locations, reverted to the old hunting and gathering lifestyles, or simply disappeared from the archaeological record. To the north and west, the Hohokam Puebloans mirrored the Mogollon displacement. Well to the north, the Anasazi Puebloans followed suit. "The effects of abandonments and population redistribution around 1300 rippled throughout the still inhabited Southwest," Linda Cordell said in Archaeology of the Southwest. Meanwhile, in Mesoamerica – the wellspring of Puebloan agriculture, an ancient partner in commerce, and an inspiration for ideas – the civilization known as the "Toltecs" had collapsed. The fledgling civilization of the Aztecs had barely taken root.
Yet, somehow, in the eye of the great storm of change – a Puebloan equivalent to the Diaspora – Paquime managed to crystallize and prosper, becoming one of the largest and most influential communities in the pre-history of the arid basin and range country of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
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Within as little as a decade, Paquime had reinvented itself. Giving up single-story house clusters and plazas, the people built an entirely new adobe-walled city, with planning, architecture and construction which reflected influences from the Anasazi of the Colorado Plateau. They built ceremonial mounds and ballcourts which echoed the customs of the Mesoamericans of southern and western Mexico. From a vibrant community of more than 2000 rooms and more than 2000 residents, an eclectic population cast the rays of its emerging culture across 30,000 to 40,000 square miles.
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Meanwhile, Casas Grandes ceramists "produced effigies and painted vessels – all highly decorated with geometric design – depicting men, women, macaws, owls, snakes, badgers, fish, lizards, and mountain sheep," as VanPool said in her article in Archaeology Magazine. "The naturalistic images often are detailed enough to allow the identification of animal species. Many vessels even record ritual behavior that occurred in the past…" Archaeologists have found Paquime and Paquime-style ceramics at 13th and 14th century village sites scattered across western Texas, southern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, northeastern Sonora and northern Chihuahua.
https://www.desertusa.com/ind1/ind_new/ind13.html
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Symmetry Analysis of Step Fret Patterns on Ceramics and Other Media from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest: Continuities and Changes in a Shared Pattern System
Dorothy K. Washburn
https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/15927/chapter-abstract/170849842?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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The olla-type vessel (cooking pot) seen here is made of buff, or earth-toned, clay and painted with black step, spiral, and triangular designs often found within Casas Grandes iconography. These indicate that the object may have played an important role in ritual ceremonies and may have been venerated as well.
https://vilcek.org/art/casas-grandes-paquime-bowl-1992-01-1/
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Kokopelli may have originally been a representation of Aztec traders, known as pochtecas, who may have traveled to this region from northern Mesoamerica. These traders brought their goods in sacks slung across their backs and this sack may have evolved into Kokopelli's familiar hump; some tribes consider Kokopelli to have been a trader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokopelli#External_links
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-antiquity/article/abs/mesoamerican-antecedents-of-sikyatkistyle-geometric-patterns-on-textiles-depicted-in-murals-from-the-american-southwest/BF2FFE90C1A2614D92D1ECC21AA80606
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https://mikeruggerisaztlanworld.tumblr.com/post/127216902209/paquimecasas-grandes
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Game on...on the radio...Angels at As...bottom of third...fly out...Ohtani on mound...K...no score...pitch clock moves the game along so fast...foul out...to top of fourth...so fast I haven't time to do my step fret browses!...or something...baseball noted for its being laid back, has become frenetic!...Trout at bat...W...Ohtani up...base hit...the three Rs:Rendon, Renfro, Regnifo...fly out line out strike out...bottom of fourth...K...hit...hit...runners on second and third...K...the pottery from Casas Grandes is beyond!...and hard to discern the ancient from modern, but what caught my eye, was one with stylized step fret...K!...to top of five...trying to search it back up...miss cues by Oakland...dogged infield play, wild pitch,,,runner? on third...Ohoppe up...single!...Angels 1, As 0...it was a new guy on third...Terry and Mark not with his name yet...which is unusual to say!...anyway...Ward ground out...bottom of fifth...Renfre makes a circus catch...one down...ground out...K...to top of sixth...Paquime is a story!...Trout up...warning track long out...Ohtani K...Rendon up...W...Angels made out...to top bottom of sixth...oh...added 'step fret" to casas grandes pottery...K...to top of seventh...and that paper above came up...but can't open it...yet...need to get that magazine!...what I noted, seeing the casa pot, was the stylization...two posts back noted local artists could stylize the Inca canon motifs, but still remain faith full to the canon...it's these traveling merchants that our responsible for this!...where ever they went they carried the elites cultural art, from rituals to pots and such...from South America to North America...in the Old World they had counterparts...in the Americas the traders were remarkable for trekking without out help of beasts of burden, horses, oxens, mules, donkeys...Llamas helped somewhat...bottom of seventh...Angels bullpen on the mound...Ohtani 92 pitches...two hits no runs...think I read Kopopelli was a trader...brb...one out...comebacker to Hergen...two out...123 for Hergen...with theses bits of stored away lore, "Kopopelli a trader" I'm like Grey Squirrel memory of their stored here and there acorns!...Ohoppe out...Ward single...Trout up!...stolen base, Ward on second...liner out to left...Ohtani up!...intentional W...Rendon up!...K...to bottom of eighth...Luke on mound...lead off single...Angels needed extra runs...troubletrouble now...off the wall...double...Angels 1, As 1...the Mixtec step fret triangle, the whole Puuc area's, is identical to Moche, in Peru...one out...flare base hit...Angels 1, As 2...another hit...two on...what is "Google Scholar"?(seen in footnotes)...weird plays benefitting As...appeal on steal of second...oh, it is google search engine devoted to papers!...safe...As are blowing it open...oh, a double play!...to top of ninth...need a comeback...W...turbulence!, the step fret, greek key, might be thought of in physics...turbulence one of the great science puzzles...on that last pot is the step fret, aaand the checkerboard...go figure...pop out...Hermanez up...he was the fellow earlier on third..."Roscehellla?"...Phillips, another newbie, on first running for Regnifo...full count...to the track-out...aaand the ball game is over...good game!
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