Word: teotihuacan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological wonders of Teotihuacan, ate lunch in a flower-walled tent, and marveled at the ancient Temple of Quetzalcoatl...
...Terra picked up the scent last November. He made his first strike in an area that he had not considered promising: a handful of stone artifacts-scrapers, drills and flaked stones-projecting from the eroded wall of a ravine near Teotihuacan, northeast of Mexico City. With this unexpected encouragement, he went to Tequixquiac, a spot known to be rich in fossilized remains of animals. Dr. de Terra hoped this would yield traces of hunters as well...
...Mexican archeologists who followed their hunch it was there in the face of learned opposition. Alfonso Caso, head of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, rejected the theory that the ancient Toltec capital had already been rediscovered in the famed ruins (also of Toltec workmanship) at Teotihuacan. So did a young, Cambridge-educated archeologist named Jorge Acosta, who had taken up digging after touring Europe as a champion tennis player. The Cardenas government chipped in 3,000 pesos ($621). By the time Archeologist Acosta had disinterred his pyramid, the Mexican government had upped its grant by another...