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Talk about cultural projection... > The massive ruins of Chaco Canyon reminded the modern Americans who first encountered them of the Aztecs. Given their love
by jackbravo 8y ago
Talk about cultural projection...
> The massive ruins of Chaco Canyon reminded the modern Americans who first encountered them of the Aztecs. Given their love of clean straight lines, symmetry, and order, and their penchant for monumentality, a more apt parallel to the Anasazi, I think, would be the old Romans. Like the Roman colony, Pueblo Bonito was built to a plan.
Either he doesn't know the aztecs, or any other culture from the region. He had to go to Rome, discounting other great cities like Tenochtitlan (Aztec, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan), Teotihuacan (Toltec? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan), Palenque, Chichen-Itza, Tikal from the Mayans, or Monte Alban from the Zapotec people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Alb%C3%A1n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Alb%C3%A1n)....
- RogerL 8y agoBesides the extensive trade and travel done with what we now call Mexico, there was also a lot of trade, or at least travel, to CA at the time; beads formed from seashells gathered from the CA coast were a common feature of clothing and daily use items. The writer of the article is ignorant, and the comparison to Rome is offensive.