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Redwood City, California Redwood City is in the heart of silicon valley, half way between San Jose and San Francisco. During the the gold rush period one and a half centuries ago, Redwood City's deep water port and nearby redwood groves helped to build the new city of San Francisco. Long before then in the mists of antiquity, this now obscure inland waterway invited other seafarers and has been the home to many first Americans. The Maya in their migration southward also found this port inviting and from the archeological evidence presented on this web site, it appears they maintained a trading colony at this location until the time of conquest. What follows are artifacts found by chance and for the most part, they have been surface finds. The sites where these artifacts were found are in jeopardy of being destroyed and need to be properly excavated by archeologist. The sites historical preservation is one of the reasons this web sit exists. The following illustrations demonstrate the images carved on many of the artifacts pictured on this site and are copies of images drawn by Linda Schele in the book Maya Cosmos, pages 86 and 90. The style of the cosmic monster on the artifacts is more primitive, yet there are two heads on the left and one on the right and as below, there is a head in the mouth on the left. Sometimes there is also the image of the moon goddess with the head below the goddess and her rabbit.
Jaguar
Paddler Maize god Stingray
Paddler
The
significance of the quincunx pattern of center on the artifacts
RWC#2CA-ca05 and RWC#1CA-mi03
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