Word: mesoamerica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boys are apparently of pre-Olmec origin, sculptured by predecessors of the earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica, who dwelt in a region around Izapa, an ancient priestly center just across the border in Mexico. The gifted artisans did not insert magnetic rocks into the figures, but apparently carved them around natural magnetic poles in the original basaltic boulders. But how did they discover this magnetism? Mesoamerica's oldest known lodestone, or primitive compass, a 2.5-cm (1-in.) bar made of magnetic rock, dates back only to 1000 B.C., a millennium younger than the Fat Boys and some...
...long regarded the city -famed for its Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun and avenue-like Street of the Dead-as a ceremonial center inhabited largely by priests and their retainers. Now, new discoveries suggest that between A.D. 400 and 700, Teotihuacan was literally the Big Apple of Mesoamerica, the focus of a far-flung empire that stretched from the arid plains of central Mexico to the mountains of Guatemala...
...continual drives for funds, for obvious reasons. Many "paganized" forms of Christianity have evolved, but the Church does everything it can to suppress these, explaining "these minority groups frequently cause situations of conflict with the rest of the population." (See official introduction to Aldous Huxley's "Practicas Religiosas en Mesoamerica" (Religious Practices in Central America). Semenaria de Integration Social Guatemalteca, No. 11, 1965. Quote is from footnote #5 on page...