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another site at quicuilco on the opposite side of the lava flow has received attention from archaeologists here a great round mound rises in terraces faced with cobblestones it is surrounded by the lava flow and some persons have assumed that the mound was already abandoned and in decay when the lava flow took place perhaps however the mound was built on a piece of land that the lava flow had spared there are no contacts between the lava and the mound except at the ends of two projecting aprons or causeways the pottery at this site is sufficiently different from that found at copilco invention of agriculture before examining in greater detail the art of the archaic horizon let us consider its real significance it is generally admitted that america was originally populated from asia but on a cultural level no higher than the neolithic the simple arts of stone chipping basketry fire-making etc were probably brought over by the earliest immigrants but there is abundant evidence that pottery-making weaving and agriculture were independently invented long after the original settlement The cultivated plants in the New World are different from those of the Old World, and there is a vast area in Northwestern America and Northeastern Asia upon the only open line of communication, where agriculture and the higher arts have never been practiced.

now the invention of agriculture is an antecedent necessity for all the high cultures of the new world it is equally clear that this invention must have taken place in a locality where some important food plant grew in a wild state by far the most important food plant of the new world is maize while this plant has changed greatly under domestication botanists are inclined to find its nearest relative and possibly progenitor in a wild grass growing on the highlands of mexico and known by the aztecan name diocently which means sacred maize it is known that maize is at its best in a semi-arid tropical environment it cannot be brought to withstand frost although the growing season can be cut down to meet the requirements of a short summer geographically its use extended from the st lawrence to the rio de la plata and from sea level to an elevation of fifteen thousand feet in tropical regions the mexican highlands occupy this central position in the area of its distribution and archaeological evidence strongly points to this region as being the cradle of agriculture and the attendant arts besides maize the most widely distributed food plants of the new world are beans and squashes certain other plants were cultivated in more restricted areas and might have had different places of origin for instance manioc was doubtless brought under cultivation in a humid lowland region probably the amazon valley and the same may be said of sweet potatoes the common potato was found under domestication in peru and there is no very good evidence that its use extended into central america irrigation would have been necessary before agriculture could have been developed to any great extent on the highlands of mexico although irrigation is often looked upon as a remarkable sequel of the introduction of agriculture into an arid country yet from the best historical evidence at our command we should rather regard it as a conception which accounts for the very origin of agriculture itself The earliest records of cultivated plants are from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mexico, and Peru, where irrigation was practiced.

In these regions are also seen the earliest developments of the characteristic arts of sedentary peoples, namely pottery and weaving, and the elaborate social and religious structures that result from a sure food supply and a reasonable amount of leisure.

if this theory is true we must admit that below the archaic horizon we should find traces of a horizon of non agricultural peoples living a nomadic life without pottery unfortunately such peoples make fewer objects and scatter them more widely than do sedentary agriculturists no one on the basis of present knowledge can offer more than an opinion concerning the date of the invention of agriculture in the new world the thick deposits left by the sanitary peoples argue great age and the wide area of homogeneous products argues slow change in the most favored regions archaic art may have been succeeded by higher forms shortly before the time of christ and perhaps five thousand years is not too long in time to allow for the diversities of the domesticated plants of america archaic

No, y además se le-

Pero perdón, es más, puede estar corriendo por toda la alcantarilla hasta Río de la Plata.

No, pero no pone el dinero suelto, lo pone en un tupper.

Ah, con razón.

So he was football's first real international superstar.

But within South America or within the River Plate region and Uruguay, he continued the tradition of Juan Delgado playing.

from Peñarol and Isabelino Gradin as well.

So you had a center half and an inside left as well.

And that was perfectly timed because Argentina... decided to join them as well in Amsterdam.

So it was really, yeah, this kind of, it consolidated South America's place, having the two jewel it out on European soil, two South American, two Rio Plataense teams.

It really confirmed the fact that the centre of football or, you know, football power resided in the River Plate in South America.

Yeah.

Still coasting southwardly, it is believed that they saw and named Rio de Janeiro on January 1st.

They must have reached the mouth of the Rio de la Plata before they decided to change their course, as Vespucci states that they made 750 leagues in sight of the shore, reckoning from Cape St. Augustine.

On February 15th, they were probably on the coast of Uruguay, at about 37 degrees south latitude, although in the lettera Vespucci says 32, perhaps a typographical error.

where the coast seemed suddenly to recede due west at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, giving rise to the idea that here was the southern limit of the land that barred their way to Asia.

Here the Admiral handed over the control of the expedition to Vespucci, and they quitted the American coast, sailing southeast, till on April 7th they reached the island afterwards called South Georgia by Captain Cook, who believed himself the first discoverer of it.

The intense cold, the darkness, and the storms appalled them, and after a vain effort to find a port, they veered around, and Vespucci congratulated himself on his luck, for he states that the delay of another day would have caused the total destruction of their little fleet.

There they stayed for over two months, but none of their companions arrived.

Vespucci took for granted that they had been lost, and assigns all the blame to the misconduct of the Admiral Gonzalo Coelho.

I went to Argentina.

From Argentina, I went over Rio de la Plata, um, to get to Uruguay.

And, uh, after Uruguay, I went into Brazil, which could be a continent on its own.

Yeah.

like soccer, cafes, late dinners, bookstores, steak, and mate.

It's on the shore of the Rio de la Plata.

It has about 3 million people, while the greater metropolitan area has about 15 or 16 million people, which is about one-third of Argentina's entire population.

Residents of Buenos Aires are called porteños, meaning people of the port.

In South America, curiously enough, the direction is reversed.

If the Caribs belong to the Tupi-Guaraní stem, and if the Quechuas belong to the Aymaras, as there is a strong likelihood, then nine-tenths of the population of the vast continent wandered forth from the steppes and valleys at the headwaters of the Rio de la Plata toward the Gulf of Mexico, where they came in collision with that other wave of migration surging down from high northern latitudes.

For the banks of the river Paraguay and the steppes of the Bolivian Cordilleras are unquestionably the earliest traditional homes of both Tupis and Aymaras.

The movements took place not in large bodies under the stimulus of a settled purpose, but step by step, family by family, as the older hunting grounds became too thickly peopled.