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First Language explains more details of the Battle of Tollense, Germany

Man after man went down, struck by the superior force of the invaders. Scientists have found thousands of battle artifacts in or around the Tollense River in northern Germany, pointing to a huge battle...

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The Fall of Teotihuacan, the massacre at Durango, and the Origin of the...

Eight miles southwest of Durango, Colorado, was the scene of one of the most gruesome massacres in the Americas prior to the arrival of the Europeans. It is estimated that the massacre occurred between...

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Some of the Pre-Hispanic History of Nicaragua

To tell the story of pre-Hispanic Nicaragua is to tell of two ancient stories and two relatively modern stories. The first ancient story is that of various peoples running away from the beginning of...

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The Chupicuaro, key central Mexican culture prior to Teotihuacan

The area around Acambaro and Queretaro, Mexico, became a center for the Purepecha and Otomi in the Pre-Classic era. The settlement of this area northwest of the central valley of Mexico may have...

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Set Down by the Itza, Massacre in Chalatenango

After the Itza settled in the balsam forest near the coast of present-day La Libertad, most likely at Teotepeque and then Tamanique, they continued the practice of first born sacrifice. Just as with...

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Escaping the Maya: San Bartolome of Arcatao

Between 8300 and 8200 BCE, the Cho and Kiche increased their repression on Isla Tigre, forcing all people there to comply with the first-born child sacrifice practice. This precipitated a move to the...

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Surviving the Tsunami Part 5: Soaking in the Lempa May Explain Hindu Soaking...

Part 1 Cause of the Tsunami and First Impacts in El SalvadorPart 2 The Zapotec and Itza Float to MexicoPart 3 The Battle for the Heart and Soul of the OtomiPart 4 Long Distance Floaters - Tunica to...

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Surviving the Tsunami Part 4: the Atlantic: Tunica to Mississippi and the...

7200BCE Tsunami Part 1Tsunami Part 2Tsunami Part 3The Poto women (Otomi and Purepecha) floating from Pacific Nicaragua to Mexico were not the only groups of people from the region of Nicaragua to float...

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Surviving the Tsunami Part 3: The Tlalpaneca, Otomi, Amuzgo, Chatino, and...

Part 3 in a 5-part series on the tsunami of 7200 BCE in Mesoamerica. Part 1  Part 2The TlapanecaThe Kiche’ had extended beyond Lago Coatepeque over the years since their 8200 BCE beginning at the lake,...

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Surviving the Tsunami Part 2: the Huave, Zapoteca, Mixteca, Triqui, and...

Paddling on Branches in the Ocean under the Stars The most important event in the ancient history of Mesoamerica was the tsunami which occurred in about 7220 BCE, caused by the bursting of a massive...

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The Origin of the Zapotecs - the Tsunami of 7280 BCE

First of three blog entries on the tsunami of ~7280 BCEJust as the Maya suffered through a terrible tsunami at Lago Güija in about 7835 BCE, all the Maya lineages, especially the Ik’ lineage, suffered...

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Torom, a Siberian Origin for America's Indigenous

Far southeastern Siberia, along the Pacific Coast (Sea of Okhotsk), holds the names which reveal the group, the “remnant” in their terminology, which broke away and was the principal founding group of...

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The Xinca Lead Dogs

Given these four great discoveries in a short period of time – the tzolk'in, the Mars long-count calendar, taming animals, and cultivation– at least two of the Maya-ancestor elites became full of...

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The Chupicuaro, key central Mexican culture prior to Teotihuacan

The area around Acambaro and Queretaro, Mexico, became a center for the Purepecha and Otomi in the Pre-Classic era. The settlement of this area northwest of the central valley of Mexico may have...

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Set Down by the Itza, Massacre in Chalatenango

After the Itza settled in the balsam forest near the coast of present-day La Libertad, most likely at Teotepeque and then Tamanique, they continued the practice of first born sacrifice. Just as with...

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Escaping the Maya: San Bartolome of Arcatao

Between 8300 and 8200 BCE, the Cho and Kiche increased their repression on Isla Tigre, forcing all people there to comply with the first-born child sacrifice practice. This precipitated a move to the...

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Surviving the Tsunami Part 5: Soaking in the Lempa May Explain Hindu Soaking...

Part 1 Cause of the Tsunami and First Impacts in El SalvadorPart 2 The Zapotec and Itza Float to MexicoPart 3 The Battle for the Heart and Soul of the OtomiPart 4 Long Distance Floaters - Tunica to...

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Surviving the Tsunami Part 4: the Atlantic: Tunica to Mississippi and the...

7200BCE Tsunami Part 1Tsunami Part 2Tsunami Part 3The Poto women (Otomi and Purepecha) floating from Pacific Nicaragua to Mexico were not the only groups of people from the region of Nicaragua to float...

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Surviving the Tsunami Part 3: The Tlalpaneca, Otomi, Amuzgo, Chatino, and...

Part 3 in a 5-part series on the tsunami of 7200 BCE in Mesoamerica. Part 1  Part 2The TlapanecaThe Kiche’ had extended beyond Lago Coatepeque over the years since their 8200 BCE beginning at the lake,...

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Surviving the Tsunami Part 2: the Huave, Zapoteca, Mixteca, Triqui, and...

Paddling on Branches in the Ocean under the Stars The most important event in the ancient history of Mesoamerica was the tsunami which occurred in about 7220 BCE, caused by the bursting of a massive...

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