Yes, interesting .... lots of jade has been found in the maya ruins, multi-coloured, it's been the red-to-yellow through orange, beside the green, that i've remembered from museums, more than blue .... we don't identify with the olmecs, that's the name of a baseball team from Villahermosa, 'Olmecas' -g- .... in the museo nacional de antropología there are some outstanding pieces of jewelry and statuary, mostly from burial tombs ... this looks like a jade necklace, middle foto on left - sunsite.unam.mx
... they don't have much for fotos online though, shame ... also the British Museum has some great pieces ... ah, here we are, put +maya +jade +museo into google - maya-archaeology.org
... in another search just now i tripped over another reference to the man who introduced me to my wife, how about that ... she is there now, coming back monday
That's a good paper, nytimes ... earlier i was reading this - nytimes.com
... our area is out of the zone of cenotes, no limestone, no solid rock at all for many metres down, just volcanic/loess soil .... but we know people from that area, actually also an ex-neighbour of ours here in BC now spends the winters with his bus parked beside a cenote
The Commerzwaffe decided in their spite to impose the newest lumber tariffs tonight at midnight [pst, an hour ago] instead of thursday night .... so there will be mills with two days of wood caught in transit .... it goes on ... and Shrub with his little rant at the cubanos, what is that going to prove, some rich kid who's inherited the strings to the eight thousands pounds gorilla mouthing it up to old Fidel who has outlasted what, ten presidents ... you'd think after forty years they'd figure out how much they were holding the old fart in power doing that ... it's the main thing he's got going for him, that he's kept cubanos free from the mafiosos who ruled them before |
