Monsters
Notes: Game on...on the radio...top of 2nd...Angels and Tigers...Tigers 2-1...Fletch led off with a home run in first for Angels score...Pujols and Goodwin make out...that figure at tail of previous post, that looks like a Abominable Snowman, was too a snuff palette...I often time see it in browses...and the clay seal was from the same culture that made this Yeti...brb...to bottom of second...wait...the one with paws down had this caption:
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As an outgrowth of the earlier Chorrera ceramic sculptural tradition, Jama-Coaque pottery focuses on the human figure and the portrayal of ritual life. Most Jama-Coaque ceramic figures were formed from molds, and hand modeling completed the piece. Here, however, no evidence of mold construction is discernible, the lively figure and its attached tray being modeled entirely by hand. In addition, the figure's animated and threatening pose diverges from the majority of Jama-Coaque ceramic figures, which typically are more static in body position and attitude. The figure portrays a spirit being or perhaps a shaman in spirit form ready to battle supernatural forces. The being's teeth and clawed paws recall those of the jaguar, here with an especially shaggy fur. The jagged tongue and rectangles hanging from the ear ornaments may refer to the being's supernatural powers. Shamanic transformation was aided by the ingestion of psychoactive plants ground into a fine powder and ingested as a snuff, which was served on trays such as this one.
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lol...from a forum chit chat thread:
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Stuff got WEIRD in ancient Ecuador. REALLY WEIRD! Jama Coaque, La Tolita, & Tumaco
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Fletch hits a double, and moves Calhoun to third...Trout up...and they are pitching to him with first base open...Ohtani to follow...1-2...Trout's in a slump...2-2...Tumaco is in Columbia...and a town...Jama Coaque the name of the culture that made the Yeti...K...Ohtani grounds out...to bottom of third...well, I'm diverted by the monsters!...these cultures along the Pacific coast make really lively pottery figurines!...for sometime...but they do something else, something I've been reaching for...in the Old World the Phoenicians were the sea traders, and thought is they had counterpart in the New, sea trader cultures on the Pacific Coast, sea trader cultures on the Atlantic Coast...Jama Coaque culture does well for such on the Pacific Coast...I'll come back to them...lemee go get the Atlantic Coast one...brb...mayan boats...Tigers score...Tigers3-1...Angels defense not sharp...
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During the current expedition, the team especially hopes to uncover remains of Maya trading canoes, which Christopher Columbus’ son Ferdinand described in 1502 as fashioned from a single tree trunk and with a structure “not unlike those of Venetian gondolas.” These vessels could carry crews of 25 paddlers along with additional passengers and were piled high with cargo. (It was after capturing one of these boats that Ferdinand and his father puzzled over almond-like beans prized by the Maya and used to make a flavorful drink, becoming the first Europeans to encounter chocolate.)
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Ferdinand used his wealth, inheritance from Christopher, to collect books...and founded a library...reminds me of Thomas Jefferson and his book collecting...a wonder is if he illustrated his account of the Mayan boats...Angels getting wooped...Tigers up bottom of fifth..
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The presence of crescent shaped temple mounds in the Florida Peninsula strongly suggests cultural contacts with Maya ethnic groups, who worshiped the goddess, Ixchel. Very few Florida archaeologists have been willing to suggest publicly that Florida, Mesoamerica and South America had direct cultural contacts. Those who did, were all ostracized by their peers. 1See previous discussion of William Sears in The Architecture of Fort Center Archaeological Site.
However, the linguistic and architectural evidence is overwhelming for contacts between illiterate Maya merchants and the indigenous peoples in Georgia – which is north of Florida.
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The demand for prestige goods and slaves stimulated the wealthy Putun to develop their boat-building skills. 10Peck, Douglas T. (2005) The Yucatan from Prehistoric Times to the Great Maya Revolt. Norman. NC: Exlibris; pp 167-174.
They learned how to build boats from wooden planks that were much more efficient freight haulers than either dug-out canoes or slave caravans. Eventually, they developed a craft that was about the same size and construction as the famous Viking långbåt (longboat.) The Chontal sea craft usually were about sixty feet long, used rudders for steering, contained a cabin for ship’s officers and were propelled both by oarsmen and one or more sails. These were true ocean-going boats. They would have had no trouble navigating the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean Sea.
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There was virtually no mention of the Chontal Maya in the professional archaeological literature of Mexico and North America until the first decade of the 21 st century.
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Kelly’s reputation was restored on December 21, 2012 when on the History Channel program, “America Unearthed,” University of Minnesota scientists revealed a 100% match between attapulgite mined in Georgia and Maya Blue stucco in the Maya city of Palenque, Chiapas. The largest concentration of Mesoamerican –like artifacts had been found by Kelly near Attapulgus, GA.
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this could update a post I did last season...I went on about the Mayan Blue...a mayan blue search will turn up where I visited...something unexpected is that the blue body paint, a paste, had hallucinogenic properties added to it from some plant...gotta wonder if the early Americans were ever sober...and still...noted driving about, liquor stores on nearly every corner...Tigers 6-1...that bit about the researcher suffering from prejudice is true...I read the back and forth in professional forums...like scholars thought North America to be void of any contact with Mesoamerica...not so...Tigers 7-1...so, so Chontal Maya on the Atlantic Coast, Jama Coaque on the Pacific Coast...a curio is that the Maya didn't like the ocean, superstitious fear of it and its weather...I had a friend who wouldn't put a foot into the surf, having gotten rolled about once...more on these New World Phoenicians for sometime...but here an opportunity for King Tut's model boats, and the little canopy...another run on an error throw to first...Tigers 8-1...this is a repeat of the games against Houston...'Angels sloppy here tonight'...and, that's not usual...Angels good on defense...
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Trout up...K...grim...Ohtani hit by pitch on his mending elbow...takes his base...Simmons up...or was it Goodwin...oh, Ohtani with an English radio ad...:)...
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the canopies on the boats have the look of the naos, the inner sanctum shrines, often a mummy or god underneath...that semi curved roof distinctive...a reach I know to put it side by side with the Moche canopies...but both cultures may have gotten the canopies from their reed boats...Sumer, Egypt, Mesoamerica, Bolivia, Peru, Sudan, and so on, anywhere a lake with reeds, or river...I think the California Indians had reed boats...brb...Tigers 8-1...afternoon game tomorrow...Angels on road for thirteen games!...
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The tomol was a very strong and sturdy canoe made of driftwood redwood planks,plant fibers and tar.The tomol was ten to twenty feet long, and could fit about ten people.The Chumash made tomols by finding redwood drift wood they found in on shores. Then they carved it to redwood planks then tying several strands or natural fibers and made tomols waterproof by gluing strong with tar.
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Chumash had reed boats too...and, and they tied together the planks...Ballard has found a boat at the bottom of the Black Sea, rope joinery, and joined together with tongue and groove too...for sometime this boat...it is the only know example to date of boat tied together with rope like the Khufu boat...which is a maybe...some of those model boats looked to have been tied together, but it's hard to see if they are old, or modern imaginative replicas...oh, and the paint...all the model boats look painted, while the Khufu boat has no decoration...a curio the why of that!...for sometime...back to browse the monsters with remaining game time...
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Trout struck out again...Ohtani up K...grim and grimmer...those pots are from Ecuador, I think...auction house listings...the second one has the little triangle...archaeology in Columbia and Ecuador is in its infancy...the terrain is really rugged, a deterrent to modern towns...ancients seems to have been able to make a go of it most anywhere...to bottom of seventh...it would be something to find how far north in South America the step fret got, before it lept to Mesoamerica...or visa versa!...and the carriers of it would have been these coastal sea traders, I imagine...on both coasts...Tigers 10-2...eesh...
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Ceramic vessel with a sitting human figure. Jama-Coaque Culture, of the Regional Development Period (500 BC–AD 500)
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I'm plotting the stirrup vessels too...someday a scholarly map!...and this kind of vessel too...the Mixtec kneeling warrior is like this...a large round cup sort of back...the stirrup vessels whistle, maybe these kind too...Angels down to their last out...and now final strike...oh..a hit...Lucroy with rbi double!...Tigers 10-3...that site has great pics...hmmph...the Yeti is the only snuff palette I find from these cultures...that's not right...another hit...bases loaded...Fletcher up...fc ground out..."that'll do it"...saw Avengers movie last night and sniffled all the way through...fellow next to me said at start he wasn't prone to screaming...I tried to be quiet...what a weird movie...and the big battle GOT episode too...our emotions are at Hollywood's mercy...thought is rolling around that that is how it must have been for Amerindians...that's what the archaeologist call an 'intuitive' observation...hmmph...
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