Palenque

At one time they lived in Mexico and they started north and because these people had come in that were cannibalistic and they just wanted to escape them so they started north and The story is, at least some people think, that they actually stopped and made cities along the way.

And some people even tie the Hopi to Palenque in Mexico.

Now, Palenque is an interesting place because Palenque, you know, as you'll read in my book, they talk about Botan who came here you know, that he had this elevator-like thing that he would go into and he would go to the stars.

Others say that there's no truth to that at all, that, you know, this is a story that was made up.

But anyway, it was supposed to be a place where all the great knowledge of the world would be stored, or the universe would be stored.

They were able to collect two million cubic meters of water from runoff.

At Palenque, in the lowlands of Chiapas, they built aqueducts and dams and drains and a bridge to control flooding caused by streams that fed the city.

And in all these places, water management required a ton of labor.

How much of this was cooperative and how much was coerced, we can't really say.

The artifacts were discovered at an approximately 3-hectare site close to Tennessee, Tabasco, during excavations in June 2021.

Section 1 runs 226 kilometers, 140 miles, from Palenque, Chiapas, to Escarchega, Campeche and the salvage project led to the closer examination of previously ignored materials, similar to the way fine sieving revolutionized the interpretation of ritual deposits in Palenque.

Marisol Arce Acosta, head of the project's zooarchaeology laboratory, is directing the new analysis with archaeologist Cedami L. Lunalimon.

Two ray fragments have polished surfaces, likely due to sediment abrasion, while another retains striations, ridges, and heavy sediment.