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Tagsturquoise
2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Classic to Epiclassic Chalchihuites (c.300–900 CE); Classic Suchil 300–500 CE, Alta Vista phase 600–800 CE · Chalchihuites (Suchil–Canutillo–Alta Vista) frontier mining–agricultural with Sierra Madre turquoise
Chalchihuites cinnabar–turquoise mining village (c.300–900 CE) with pyramid and ore roasting pits supplying Pueblo Bonito turquoise.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Legend 8th c. Visigothic bishops flight + 1539–42 contact episode · Iberian medieval + Zuni (Ashiwii) + Coronado Spanish
Fray Marcos's 1539 'streets of turquoise' at Zuni – Coronado found adobe Hawikuh, no gold.
