Welcome back for the coming season of Fall, the harvest season!
We're going to sit back, watch, and participate in the Goldfest 2005 festivities created by four other worlds this year.
ChanChan Tupac and
Mangas Cochise are batting around ideas for a small mini-fest to be held early December, in the Americas. If you would like to help, or simply have suggestions, drop them off with either of these two scribes.
Our Hoods are available for Board and Thread setup. South America is soliciting writers to develop that region of our world. If you are interested, please contact ChanChan. She'll work with you to help establish it. Civilizations can be Incan, or earlier. As far as Board and Thread setup goes - posting in the Hoods does not require membership. If you would like to be a Hood Leader - and we'll need a more dignified name than that - contact either Mangas or ChanChan. Choose your Hood of interest from the existing, or provide us a brief proposal for a new one.
As far as group news goes, they're posting about 3-D Mangas, er, that was manga, in
Virtual Archaeology.
Decadence Augustus has posted an amazing reconstruction of the Forum of Pompeii, circa 61 AD, and in
Museum of the Americas,
Star Eyes CrazyHorse is keeping everyone updated on the latest in museum exhibits relating to the Americas.
Mangas has been heavily updating the
Table of Tribal Correspondences, when not outdoors participating in an actual Native American dig. The expedition has been digging up artifacts that may have been Algonquin, or which may possibly date back to the Late Archaic Eastern Woodlands era. You can read more about the dig at
Experiential Archaeology, and talk about your own archaeological ambitions.
Incan Culture in the Spotlight
The quipu, an ancient counting system devised by the Andean civilizations, may have also provided communications via a "written" symbolic language dependent on strings and knots. For more information, check out
Computer Analysis Provides Incan String Theory. Created from llama or alpaca wool, or from cotton, thousands of knotted strings may bear messages, and are attached to a single connecting strand. Information contained on these quipu likely enabled an accounting of the situation in different regions of the far-flung Incan empire.
The Americas, Finding Your Way Around
Please introduce yourself on our
Welcome thread. Then, check out the
Announcements for messages pertinent to the Americas. You'll also view come-on's for other site events.
Once you know your way around, try out the
Smoking Mirror Trivia, or pop in for a blue macaw and some friendly banter at the
Inn of the Blue Macaw.
Arachne's Web is a great and friendly place to learn all about graphics and coding, especially the site-specific techniques.
Living in the Americas is new, and will provide you with some resources for building your home, and fitting in to Ancient Worlds, here in The Americas. Newer yet is the thread to support
Article Researchers and Writers of the Americas — this is both for people who are 'native' to The Americas to let us know about any article they write, or for anyone at all who writes about Americas-appropriate subjects, no matter their home world.
