This week, I am happy to welcome our new Contributing Writer, Nicoletta Maestri, to the Archaeology at About.com website.
Nicoletta is a PhD student in anthropology at University of California at Riverside, and she will be writing topics for us on Precolumbian History. This week, she has written for us articles on the Mixtec Culture and the Origins of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
Please welcome Nicoletta—I know she will be giving us some fascinating glimpses into the art and archaeology of Precolumbian America.
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Welcome Nicoletta! Looking forward to new and fresh perspectives from the exciting research in pre-columbian archaelogy. Having read (and re-read) Charles C. Mann’s remarkable book “1491″ and following some of the recent revelations regarding things like the presence of chicken bones in Chile, and the stream of pre-clovis surprises, I’m totally captivated by the concept challenging discoveries that are being revealed these days.
Welcome aboard! I look forward to reading your stuff.
Dick Diehl
Hello my name is cassandra pearce i am 10 and a quator im not from uk but from Belguim.
how do you learn all about that ?
did you draw that fish?
if yes please may you teach me?!
is fish your hobby or just drawing?
me i am just learning fish into my topic so now i am verry intressted in fish or some fish not all of them …
so please may you contact me on (kc.pearce@hotmail.com)
thank you good bye and im intressted in fish so please please may you teach me about fish
good bye have a good day
Cassandra Pearce
Thank you for publishing this article and assembling the links. It has bugged me for years that my archaeology paper on this topic got a C- by an arctic archaeologist, and I do not write poor papers.
Seems to me those chickens with the blue eggs reported by the Spanish in South America were a clue since they are Polynesian in orgin.
I think we’ll find that Polynesian contact most likely dates to about the time of the last canoes in Rapa Nui (Easter Island). As things went from bad to worse, there would have been a huge incentive to get away and find anywhere else no matter how far away it was.