Word: obsidian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this level also were tombs which had sunk through the silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious stones as carnelian, turquoise and lapis lazuli. One tomb contained 25,000 beads which the diggers assumed were once part of a single beadwork jacket...
...around San Jose, reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from a single block of obsidian; a mirror wrought from a circular piece of hematite; a beautiful jade head in the grave of a sacrificed child...
...flattering likeness to Painter Rivera's. For this triumphant scene the noisy music was at its noisiest-hard, galvanic, rasping-as if Composer Chavez were trying to make up for having allowed his tropical dancers a comparatively pleasant tango. A cultural renaissance is having its start in obsidian Mexico. Rivera represents the painter's side. His frescoes all about Mexicans have been chosen to adorn governmental walls in Mexico City. Composer Chavez, director of the National Conservatory of Music and of Mexico City's leading symphony orchestra, heads the group trying now to develop an authentic Mexican...