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Robot explores Teotihuacan http://phys.org/news/2013-04-robot-chambers-ancient-mexico-temple.html Recreation of Temple of Quetzalcoatl @https://www.facebook.com/arqueomex/posts/948592355179043

University of Arizona > http://teo.asu.edu http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/8-investigaciones-y-estudios-historicos/7139-estudios-en-teopancazco-confirman-multietnicidad-de-la-urbe-teotihuacana Landmark Finds at a Teotihuacan  Neighborhood

Linda Manzanilla of UNAM has been investigating the Teotihuacan neighborhood of Teopancazco, and she found 117 burials. Isotopic analysis has been carried out on the burials. They found that the people buried there came from Puebla, Veracruz, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo and Guerrero. These neighborhoods were established to obtain raw materials and transport them to the home regions of the inhabitants. Teopancazco is dated to 150 CE-600 CE. There was trade in cotton blankets, mollusks, pigments and cosmetics there. Veracruz inhabitants left behind seafood remains. Clothes for the elites were traded there as well. In the Veracruz section, they dismembered and decapitated the deceased to transform their bones into tools, needles, pins. Cannibalism took place as well. The teeth of some of the deceased showed that some tailors were softening the fibers with their teeth.

Who Built the Great City of Teotihuacan http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/teotihuacan-/

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David Carrasco

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The symbolism of the cave of the pyramid of the sun The cave associated with the pyramid of the sun was found in 1971, when it happened a slip of the land on the west side of the monument, which left the discovered a tunnel-with 25 divisions that make up the small little rooms-which leads to The Underground Cave. A hundred meters inside the tunnel, it ends up in a house shaped like a flower of four petals. The Natural Camera is perfected by the hand of man. The flower is a ubiquitous in teotihuacan and is full of religious significance. In The Ancient Mexico, the flower symbolized the creation, the life, the language, the singing, the nobility, the government, some of the Gods, and, moreover, was a sign calendárica. In our cave, it is possible that their petals-pointing to the four directions of the universe-had an astronomical sense. The camera in the shape of a flower is almost exactly underneath the top or the center of the pyramid. On Top of the cave, there was a sanctuary, now covered, that archaeologists are situated in 150 D. C. (million, in heyden, 1975). It is likely that this sanctuary or the cave itself were in an attraction for the pilgrimages and that, at some point, the flow of the pilgrims were so numerous that the authorities teotihuacanas saw the need to build a place of worship. In addition, for the year 200 D. C. The population of the valley had spread. What today seems obvious - it was the decision to take advantage of the sanctity of the cave and the hand of the existing workforce to build on top of her a great temple, and thus retain their divine force. That's why I propose that the pyramid of the sun was the one that was built first, then the of the moon, and subsequently the citadel. The caves of teotihuacan, according to the mythology, they were the places of birth of the celestial bodies, of the gods and humans. In addition to being centres where were religious ceremonies, were considered places of communication with the deities and, also, were the gateway to the underworld. In the caves were stored the property of it's the land, so that they may have had the function of the cincalco, " house of the corn ". the caves representing chicomoztoc, " place of the seven caves ", they came from some groups Ethnic in search of a better life. Taken from Doris Heyden, "the caves of teotihuacan", archaeology Mexican, no. 34, PP. 18-27. If you wish to purchase a copy: @http://raices.com.mx/tienda/revistas-ritos-del-mexico-prehispanico-AM034

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