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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: rangerrebew on June 21, 2018, 05:39:32 pm
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True origin of ancient turquoise
Date:
June 14, 2018
Source:
Dickinson College
Summary:
New research overturns more than a century of claims that the source of turquoise used and revered by ancient civilizations in Mexico, such as the Aztecs, came from the Southwestern US Geochemical analyses show the origin of the turquoise is Mesoamerica (Central Mexico to Central America).
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180614095248.htm (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180614095248.htm)