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<< Text Pages >> Tamtoc - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 11 April 2010  Page Views: 11013

Multi-periodSite Name: Tamtoc
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 104.332 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Tamuin
Latitude: 21.924900N  Longitude: 98.8122W
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Ancient City in San Luis Potosi State, Mexico.
Pyramids. Plazas. Temples. Palaces.
This city of the Huastecas culture (named for the historic Indian people of this area) dates back to 600 BC. The ancient Huastecas were likely contemporaries to the Olmec culture found farther to the south.

The Tamtoc ruins have only been open to the public since May 2006. Digs are still on-going. Findings of massive scultured stones have been publized.

Note: Sky watching planned at Huasteca Archaeological Sites throughout 2010, see comment
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Sky watching planned at Huasteca Archaeological Sites throughout 2010 by Andy B on Sunday, 11 April 2010
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Interest in deciphering the sky, practiced during the Prehispanic ages, is been taken up in the 21st century at the Noche de Observacion Astronomica en Sitios Arqueologicos (Night of Astronomical Observation at Archaeological Sites). The first event took place in Tamtoc, San Luis Potosi in March 20th 2010.

Considered the capital city of Huasteca Prehispanic culture, Tamtoc was an important sky observation point, being Huasteca world view closely linked to star movements.

Centuries after, the interest of watching the sky and the path followed by stars is still present. At the night of astronomical observation organized by the Archaeology Coordination of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), hundreds of persons were able to do as their ancestors and watch the firmament.

From 19:00 hours, visitors were allowed into the archaeological zone main square to take part in the activity guided by archaeologists Guillermo Cordova Tello and Estela Martinez Mora.

INAH researcher Estela Martinez Mora mentioned that a conference regarding sky observation in Ancient Mexico and its meaning, especially for Huasteca people, was imparted first.

“As no instruments were used to watch the sky back then, we pretended assistants to do the same, locating at sky maps what was being observed. Telescopes and binoculars were allowed in for those willing to use them.

“This was an interesting activity for general public, for they to understand the importance of sky observation in Prehispanic times, then linked with agricultural cycles and ideology”.

The archaeologist pointed out that among assistants were students at Universidad de San Luis and astronomy amateurs.

Estela Martinez remarked that climate conditions favored observation, and that the activity ended at 23:00 hours.

The astronomical activity will be repeated in different places and dates:

April 16th 2010: Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan
August 11th 2010: Paquime, Chihuahua
September 10th 2010: Tula, Hidalgo
October 25th 2010: Tonina, Chiapas
November 11th 2010: La Ferreria, Durango
November 13th 2010: Calixtlahuaca, Estado de Mexico
November 17th 2010: Chalcatzingo, Morelos
December 13th 2010: Tehuacalco, Guerrero

Huasteca World Vision
Huasteca cosmos was integrated by 3 levels: the inferior one was inhabited by the dead and cold nature deities; the terrestrial or middle one was dwelled by humans, and the superior level was where hot nature deities inhabited. Contemporary Huasteca peoples conserve this concept to present.

Three occupation periods have been identified at Tamtoc. The earliest goes back to 600 BC; the second one took place between 600 BC and 900 Ad, and the third between 900 and 1350 of the Common Era.

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Oldest Moon Calendar in the Americas by bat400 on Tuesday, 14 November 2006
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The oldest and largest known Mexican moon calendar was shown to the public by archaeologists and authorities last week at the ruins of Tamtoc in San Luis Potosi near the Gulf of Mexico. The massive 27-tonnes stone calendar is a product of the Huasteca culture, dating back to 600 B.C.

Mexican archaeologist Guillermo Ahuja came across the artefact in February 2005 and he spent 19 months cleaning and restoring it with a crews before showing it to a general audience.

The seven-metre long, 4.2 metre tall find is adorned with pre-Colombian figures representing fertility, water, life, nature and death. Feminine figures with water flowing from their heads represent the beliefs of a culture that considered water the essence of life.

The importance of the discovery lies in its age because it means that the Huastecas may have been a contemporary of the Olmecs, considered until now the oldest group in the region and the predecessor of all the important Mesoamerican cultures such as Mayas or the Aztecs.

It is now thought that this culture that lived near the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico had a close relationship with the Olmecas, who lived 600 miles to the south. An intense flow of migration is thought to have linked the cultures.

Further studies in the northern Atlantic Coast and southern Texas are expected to reveal more about the development of the Huasteca culture, their influence on subsequent cultures and on the whole cultural construction of Mesoamerica.

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