Who were the Hohokam? Though their immediate or remote origins are somewhat speculative, the settled opinion of archeologists is that the Hohokam were a frontier group from Mesoamerica totally unlike the surrounding tribes they joined in the American Southwest at the beginning of what is called the Pioneer Period, about 700 (Whittlesey). After their subjugation, they were also considered Toltecs. We are not told what the name of the people that the army of Theodore conquers was. The subject peoples whom the Toltec governor/overlord (silvanus, si’wan, “Elder Brother”) rules over are specifically called Toltecs. It is the first appearance of this word in the historical record, predating such chronicles as Tovar by more than five centuries. The indigenous peoples are described by the Romani as Toltec (Toltezus, 1A, 5A). For all these reasons, such unique witnesses to history are capable of throwing considerable light on American Indian studies, particularly for the otherwise nearly blank eighth and ninth centuries. They do not have to be reconstructed, pieced together, deciphered or dated. They are diplomatic records, recognizable as being signed and sealed by a public notary (OL). Finally, they are perfectly preserved, complete, unaltered. The circumstances of their manufacture from local lead and their recovery from the desert soil localize them to the place where they were excavated. They are plainly written in a script intended for public scrutiny. They are straight-forwardly composed in Latin, the official language of records during the Middle Ages. They document the annals and prosopography of a distinct geopolitical entity, a Roman-styled military kingdom in Toltec Mexico with Jewish leaders from Brittany, the Carolingian or Frankish heartland on the Seine, and Gaul, one that existed for over a century (890-900). The Tucson Artifacts bear reliable dates in the Christian calendar (560, 705, 775, 800, 880, 885, 900). Indians is probably not right… Tucson Artifacts can shed light on American Indians What You Thought You Knew about Southwest U.S.
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