{"id":1055,"date":"2015-04-11T06:27:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2015-04-11T06:27:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T12:27:17","slug":"pyrite-mirrors-found-in-arizona-reveal-ties-to-ancient-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/pyrite-mirrors-found-in-arizona-reveal-ties-to-ancient-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyrite mirrors found in Arizona reveal ties to ancient Mexico."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/popular-archaeology.com\/issue\/spring-2015\/article\/native-american-mound-builder-society-experienced-rapid-agricultural-development\" title=\"Prehistoric mirrors from Mexico\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1056\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Pyrite-Mirror-Snaketown-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"Pyrite-Mirror-Snaketown\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Pyrite-Mirror-Snaketown-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Pyrite-Mirror-Snaketown.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>More than 50 polished pyrite mirrors were found in prehistoric graves at the Snaketown site, a Hohokam site, in Arizona. \u00a0Most were found burned and buried with cremated remains. \u00a0Pyrite mirrors like these were most likely made in Central Mexico and traded north to the U.S. \u00a0between AD 650 and AD 950. \u00a0Keep in mind that in many prehistoric cultures your reflection was your soul. \u00a0So a mirror like this was magical and a high status object.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/westerndigs.org\/mesoamerican-fools-gold-mirrors-found-in-arizona-reveal-ties-to-ancient-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/westerndigs.org\/mesoamerican-fools-gold-mirrors-found-in-arizona-reveal-ties-to-ancient-mexico\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50 polished pyrite mirrors were found in prehistoric graves at the Snaketown site, a Hohokam site, in Arizona. \u00a0Most were found burned and buried with cremated remains. \u00a0Pyrite mirrors like these were most likely made in Central Mexico and traded north to the U.S. \u00a0between AD 650 and AD 950. \u00a0Keep in mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,212,66,94,96,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Pyrite-Mirror-Snaketown.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}