Exciting!!!

[panik]

It's looking increasingly like the excavations at San Luis Potosi, may be of a wholly new, previously unknown culture, concurrent with the Olmec. O:! - That's old!
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-05-09T023915Z_01_N08215541_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-LIFE-MEXICO-DC.XML

http://www.slp.gob.mx/en/ver_noticia.cfm?id=3738
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.archaeology.mesoamerican/browse_thread/thread/c50fe641b059e820

Now I know I was right not to buy that ticket for lunch with Ben Murphy and save the cash for my Mexican trip!

Incidentally, if you read Spanish, there's fresh info at;
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/05/08/a02n1cul.php

Comments

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

That was interesting. Thanks for sharing the links. It'd be great if you could visit the site while you are there.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

It's kind of a way away from where I was going - I'm hoping to fly to Cancun and then travel overland to Palenque and Bonampak. If I can run to it, it might be worth trying to fit an extra few days in, though, to visit this dig - IF they're letting Joe Public in - I need to check.
I am absurdely excited by this, but it COULD tie together a lot of theories that didn't really 'go' before. :grins all over face:

[arnie1967.livejournal.com]

That sounds exciting! Congratulations on your Mexican trip - when do you go??

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Hopefully in October, or failing that, next spring - when it's not too hot and not too deeply into the hurricane season (been there, done that, NO desire to do it again! :shudder:). It's only a plan right now, though, I've nothing booked. There are a lot of variables - money, the move, my Permaculture courses, my Mum's health, money! :G:

[arnie1967.livejournal.com]

Hey, money! I know all about that issue! :o(

Hope you get to go though. ::hugs::

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Oh wow - hope you get to go there - bounce bounce!