Today we hear of a 950 year old mummy... buried ~AD 540 (longcount 9.5.5.x.x). Yes, THAT era. The mum (literal XX!) was buried in a pyramid. So she was actually born 400 BC so, like, 6.18.0.0.0.
The locals are your standard altiplano Otomí / Nahua mix today so, the archaeologists (mostly local Mexican citizens) suspect the leaders were Otomí then - Nahua being, you know, northern. But the local genetics of the pyramid don't help - they were a mix. Mostly northwestern (Nahuas, Purépecha, Tarahumara
) but there's Maya there too. Also to be kept in mind is that first the Triple Alliance and then the Spanish Conquest since brought Otomí and Nahua both into vast lands as were neither Otomí nor Nahua before AD 1441 = 11.11.0.0.0. And I remain skeptical as to when the Otomí arrived before that.
AD 540 was, as David Keys could tell you, significant, including in Mesoamerica. It wasn't long after this that a revolution overturned what the Maya called the Place Of Reeds. The Place Of Reeds was a polyglot concern. But this pyramid doesn't look Teo\huacano.
'Tain't Maya neither. No written records - at least, nothing chiseled. Wonder how long that will last? The Maya could write; and some of them did graffiti at the Place Of Reeds.
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