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Zapotec farmers are joining forces to achieve a sustainable diet using the heirloom “zapalote chico”. This important native landrace of corn is threatened by the
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August 5, 2019 // 0 Comments
For more than two millennia, indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica have traded macaws and included their feathers in rituals. The birds held immense symbolic value and
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August 14, 2018 // 0 Comments
[ mexika.org ] via Science Based Medicine We live in a post-truth, anti-intellectual world where intuition, “common sense,” and fake news are often preferred to
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April 4, 2018 // 0 Comments
The 60 replicas of weapons that make up the exhibition, organized by INAH, through the Proyecto Arqueologico Mixteca Alta Oaxaquena y Atlatl Mexico, are a selection that
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February 8, 2018 // 0 Comments
[ mexika.org ] Via NYtimes | In the remote high desert of northwestern New Mexico lie the threatened ruins of Chaco Canyon, arguably the most significant cultural site on
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December 4, 2017 // 1 Comment
[ Kurly Tlapoyawa ] Corn is one of the great contributions made by Mesoamerican civilizations to the world. Modified and manipulated by the hands of our indigenous ancestors,
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November 11, 2017 // 1 Comment
[ mexika.org ] via theguardian.com | In Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, it is still possible to wander the maze of rooms of an ancestral Puebloan village erected roughly 1,000
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November 8, 2017 // 0 Comments
[ mexika.org ] Dr. Jennifer Raff recently gave an excellent lecture at Skepticon regarding Native DNA and the use of pseudohistory and conspiracy fetishism to promote
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November 2, 2017 // 0 Comments
[ mexika.org ] Turquoise is an icon of the desert Southwest, with enduring cultural significance, especially for Native American communities. Yet, relatively little is known
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October 26, 2017 // 0 Comments
When did America become untethered from reality?I first noticed our national lurch toward fantasy in 2004, after President George W. Bush’s political mastermind, Karl Rove,
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September 10, 2017 // 1 Comment
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