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Earth/matriX: SCIENCE IN ANCIENT ARTWORK
Charles William Johnson
Earth/matriX EditionsP.O. Box 231126, New Orleans, Louisiana 70183-1126, USA
www.earthmatrix.comISSN 1536-33128 August 2013
The Geometry of Ancient Sitesin Middle America
©2013 Copyrighted by Charles William Johnson All rights reserved.
In a previous Earth/matriX essay on the geometry of ancient sites, the concept of a distance “baseline” was employed to analyze patterns among ancient sites around the world.The ancient sites of Middle America demonstrate a similar practice of employing baselines for the placement of the ancient monumental sites. In this brief introduction to their study, a few patterns of the baselines are illustrated. An extensive study of the relational distance patterns shall be forthcoming shortly. For now, the theme is being introduced in an abbreviated manner.
Palenque Piedras Negras
Distance Baseline:Palenque - Piedras Negras
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There are far too many relationships among the ancient sites of Middle America to point out each one in this brief introduction. The illustration here shows the baseline distance between the ancient sites of Bonampak and Palenque, Mexico.The baseline distance is then compared to other ancient sites as shown in the various circles marked off from selected sites.The potential of the analytical approach based on distance baselines among the ancient sites concerns the possibility of discovering ancient sites along the relevant distance lines possibly heretofore unknown.
Palenque
BonampakPusilha
Tikal
Río Bec
Huntichmul
Chichén Itzá
©2013 Copyrighted by Charles William Johnson All rights reserved.Source: Archaeological Map of Middle America,
National Geographic Society, 1968.
TikalPalenque
Zacapa
Dzibilnacac
Distance Baseline:Palenque - TikalRío Bec - BonampakOxpemul - Agua Escondida
Río Bec
BonampakAgua Escondida
Oxpemul
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TikalPalenque
Distance Baseline:Palenque - Tikal
Source: Archaeological Map of Middle America, National Geographic Society, 1968.
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Source: Archaeological Map of Middle America, National Geographic Society, 1968.
Distance Baseline:Palenque - ComalcalcoSelected Comparisons
The site of Comalcalco is the westernmost Maya site
with unique brick structures.
Comalcalco
Palenque
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TeotihuacanTenochtitlan[Mexico City]
AcatlanAcatlan F.
MonteAlban Mitla
Guiengola
Ixtepec
Pico de Orizaba
Two DifferentDistance Baselines:
Tenochtitlan - Acatlán
Teotihuacan - Acatlán F.
Selected Comparisons
Note natural relationto Mount Pico de Orizaba
It is worthwhileto contemplatethe patterns of symmetric placement of the ancient sites against the wandering, random path taken by Hernán Cortéz and his Sixteenth Century Conquistadores.
Route ofCortés1519
They knew not amongst whom they wandered.
Source: Archaeological Map of Middle America, National Geographic Society, 1968.
©2013 Copyrighted by Charles William Johnson All rights reserved.
Earth/matriX: SCIENCE IN ANCIENT ARTWORK
Charles William Johnson
Earth/matriX EditionsP.O. Box 231126, New Orleans, Louisiana 70183-1126, USAwww.earthmatrix.comISSN 1536-33128 August 2013
The Geometry of Ancient Sitesin Middle America
