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To: RightWhale
The Mayan civilization emerged from a Chinese jade trading post in Honduras, necessary because China had no jade yet had a large Chinese jade industry.

Eh?

China had jade mines in Xinjiang Province,Liaoning Province, Henan Province and Shaanxi Province just to name a few. When they needed to import they imported their raw jade from Taiwan, Burma and Siberia not Honduras.

7 posted on 05/31/2008 12:00:43 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
When they needed to import they imported their raw jade from Taiwan, Burma and Siberia not Honduras.

That's the official story, but the truth is that they had large sweat shops full of Guatamalans who made the jade jewelry for pennies on the clamshell of what the Siberians demanded, and then they passed it off was the real Formosan goods. This has thrown off archaeologists, because the knockoffs had the same "Gucci" stamp on the back and were of such high quality as to be undetectable.

The same thing applies to the ancient Eskimo Rolex trade.

8 posted on 05/31/2008 1:07:13 PM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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