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• https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/9119-con-nuevas-tecnologias-reconstruyen-virtualmente-la-ciudad-prehispanica-de-tingambato-en-michoacan

  Michael Ruggeri

  May 6, 2020
• Michael Ruggeri

  

  Early Native Americans Imported Exotic Parrots, DNA Reveals

  National Geographic - Michael Greshko

  The discovery suggests that scarlet macaws were being bred for trade centuries earlier than previously thought. 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 represented sun gods in …

• http://www.inah.gob.mx/es/boletines/6957-localizan-108-petroglifos-en-la-zona-arqueologica-de-la-campana-en-colima

  Michael Ruggeri

  Mar 5, 2018
• Michael Ruggeri

  

  Laser scanning reveals 'lost' ancient Mexican city 'had as many buildings as Manhattan'

  The Guardian - Nicola Davis in Austin

  Groundbreaking lidar scanning reveals the true scale of Angamuco, built by the Purépecha from about 900AD Archaeology might evoke thoughts of intrepid explorers and painstaking digging, but in fact researchers say it is a high-tech laser mapping technique that is rewriting the textbooks at an …

• http://www.inah.gob.mx/es/boletines/5901-pequena-ventana-a-panteon-prehispanico-tumba-de-tiro-hallada-en-la-ciudad-de-colima

  Michael Ruggeri

  Feb 8, 2017
• Michael Ruggeri

  

  MIKE RUGGERI'S ANCIENT WEST MEXICO

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  The Virtual Re-Construction of the Site of Tingambato in Michoacan. INAH has the report here with a really great slide show of the site and its …