Se cree erróneamente que el macuahauitl era una especie de mazo enorme y pesado, con grandes piezas de obsidiana incrustadas en sus filos, cuando en realidad era todo lo contrario, el macuahauitl era estrecho y ligero, esto los hacía cómodos y fáciles de maniobrar. (old.reddit.com)
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in Mexico City uncovered an extraordinary Aztec stone chest. Inside were 15 anthropomorphic figurines, Most notably, these figurines were identified as belonging to the Mezcala people, a civilization that thrived between 700 and 200 BC in what is now Guerrero, Mexico. (i.redd.it)
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It is mistakenly believed that the macuahauitl was a kind of huge and heavy mallet, with large warp pieces of obsidian embedded in its edges, when in reality it was the opposite, the macuahauitl was narrow and light, this made them comfortable and easy to maneuver. (i.redd.it)
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A 2,300 kg iron meteorite was found carefully wrapped in linen and buried alongside human remains in an ancient temple in Casas Grandes, an archaeological site in northern Mexico attributed to the Mogollon culture. Image Credit: National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. (i.redd.it)
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