[meteorite-list] Zapotectite- what kinda name is that?

From: Michael Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 05:14:14 -0700
Message-ID: <CA0A29A6.1A382%mlblood_at_cox.net>

The Zapotecas were a Native American Culture prior to the
Conquest of the New World.
        Michael


On 5/28/11 1:41 PM, "Met. Carl Esparza" <cdtucson at cox.net> wrote:

> Brian,
> This is great news and very interesting news. . Povenmire does not name them
> in the paper posted previously found here;
>
> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1224.pdf
>
> But another paper I saw calls them Belizean tektites and tikal tektites. They
> say some were found in Mayan Ruins?
> I like your names better.
> Do you have any pictures to post?
> Would love to see them.
> Thanks.
> Carl
>
> ---- brian burrer <brimane at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In my previous post I referred to the new tektites from Belize as"
>> Zapotectites". Geologist Jean Cornec is the one that perhaps should
>> name them as his unpublished paper and its appearance on a website is
>> the start of the new strewnfield's recognition. I noticed the paper
>> about a month after posting. When I informed Hal Povenmire of the
>> posting he quickly published on the subject and referred to them as
>> Central American tektites. That is a fine name but we don't refer to
>> the Central European tektites as such but instead as Moldavite (Czechs
>> use Vlatavine). In a much earlier posting I made this year I had
>> called the new tektites "Mayanites" because the first discoveries in
>> Guatemala and Belize were all in the greater Mayan influence. But
>> "Mayanite" is used as part of a name for something referred to as
>> "Mayanite Rainbow Quartz". Perhaps a good common name should refer to
>> the particular subset of Maya in the tektite region, namely the
>> Zapotec. "Zapotectite", or perhaps more correctly "Zapotecite" would
>> then be a possible moniker for the new discoveries. I just use it
>> because it fits for me; time and common usage will be the ultimate
>> dictator.
>>
>> Happy hunting,
>> Brian
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