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as paint palettes, painted discs or pot lids. By the Postclassic period obsidian mirrors became increasingly common. Far from being a personal cosmetic…

east. The highest summit, the 4,680-metre (15,354 ft) Pico del Fraile (Friar's Peak), is on the southwest side of the crater and the second highest, the…

trade networks has been uncovered; for example, the remains of a large obsidian workshop. At its height, Tula Grande had an estimated population of as…

captives and this was certainly an important part of most Aztec warfare. Friar Diego Durán and the chronicles based on the Crónica X states that the Xochiyaoyotl…

pierce themselves with a variety of tools such as bone awls and needles, obsidian blades, or maguey thorns. Blood would be obtained from areas such as ears…

cenote, including artifacts made from gold, jadeite, copal, pottery, flint, obsidian, shell, wood, rubber, and cloth, as well as human skeletons. Many perishable…

the battle, knights wearing pre-hispanic military outfits are armed with obsidian-bladed spears, some have trophy heads, either in their hands or on their…

in the valley included copper and gold metallurgy, marine shell, mica, obsidian, stone beads, and ceramics. The Spanish conquered the Inca Empire in the…

beliefs contrary to that hypothesis. On June 7, 1932, a box with coral, obsidian, and turquoise encrusted objects was found alongside human remains, which…

superficial cuts were made by obsidian, and that the texts were carved in a two-stage process, first sketched with obsidian and then deepened and finished…

by a network of trade routes for the exchange of luxury goods, such as obsidian, jade, cacao, cinnabar, Spondylus shells, hematite, and ceramics. While…

sacrificial stone. The priest would then cut through the abdomen with an obsidian or flint blade. The heart would be torn out still beating and held towards…

without artillery or arquebusiers, repelled 100,000 Aztecs armed with obsidian-bladed swords. In August, 500 Castilians and 40,000 Tlaxcalans conquered…

and Nahuatl), twelve-volume Florentine Codex created by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún, in collaboration with indigenous Aztec informants…

original Eternal Champion trilogy is: The Eternal Champion (1970) Phoenix in Obsidian (1970, a.k.a. The Silver Warriors) The Dragon in the Sword (1986) He also…

Tequila joining later. These rebels made their stand on Tequila Mountain. Friar Juan Calero of the monastery near Tequila went to try and pacify the situation…

storage facility was also found and explored. Outside the perimeter, an obsidian workshop with living quarters was found. The last time the area was studied…

If the child died in childbirth, the tlamatlquiticitl would employ an obsidian knife to remove the fetus in pieces so as not to harm the mother. The tlamatlquiticitl…

hybernated hero native to an ice-bound planet. During the novel Phoenix in Obsidian (1970) Count Ulrik embarks on a quest for the mysterious "Chalice" (possibly…

Lumley. They are described as a set of miraculously preserved shards of obsidian or some other black stone that record the history of the pre-human African…

blade fashioned from inset obsidian; these were similar to the Aztec macuahuitl. They had a thin, wide wooden shaft with obsidian or flint blades set into…