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

[cdtucson at cox.net]

Michael,
In Oaxaca , Mexico the standing joke is that there are three different cultures there. 
1) The mixtecs.
2) The Zapotecs.
3) The disco-tecs.

Carl
---- Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net> wrote: 
> The Zapotecas were a Native American Culture prior to the
> Conquest of the New World.
>         Michael
> 
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> 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 name them as his unpublished paper and its appearance on a website is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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