Word: pima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Fell the Pima Indians of the Southwest speak a Semitic tongue acquired from Iberian Punic colonists who came 2500 years ago, and the Zunis of Arizona speak a language derived directly from Libyan, with a vocabulary composed of elements from Coptic, Middle Egyptian, and Nubian...
...have compiled 150 pages of chants from ancient Pima in the American Southeast," Fell said. Fell has proven that the chants, once thought to be undecipherable, are written in pure Iberic and Maghrib, languages prevalent in Spain and Morocco...
Fell says the American Indian civilization in the Southwest was overtaken between A.D. 1100 and 1200 by the "Ab" people. The word "Ab" means "Apache" in modern Pima, one of the tribes which shared the Southwestern culture called Hohokam and spoke in the near-universal tongue of North American at that time--Iberic, Fell said...
...Wheels. A favorite gimmick to avoid police harassment is to set up shop outside city limits. Eighteen massage parlors just over the city line of Tucson, Ariz., were raided last June by Pima County police. Since then, five new ones have opened...
Those Who Vanished. Closer to the historical era, comparisons can be made between early Americans and their Old World contemporaries. Ceram tells of the work of Emil Walter Haury, a young field archaeologist in the 1930s who explored a site at Snaketown, Ariz. The Pima Indians said that it once belonged to the "Hohokam" ("those who have vanished"). Haury confirmed that the artistic Hohokam seem to have invented etching around A.D. 1000, hundreds of years before it appeared in Europe. Instead of using metal, they worked with seashells. They cremated their dead, methodically smashing whatever artifacts they had possessed...