Roman Scale Armor from Texas
Having already written about the
discovery of Roman artifacts discovered near Tucson Arizona, and written upon
the artifacts is a very interesting story in old Latin telling of Roman
expeditions arriving here in about 700 A.D. until about 1000 A.D. when they were overthrown by
the Toltec, I am left wondering again the reasons why the
academic world is so adamant about suppressing the facts. I find it quite
comical yet frustrating as I read the various reports which always follow the
incredible finds of the past that might upset the academic world current
fictitious and orthodox views of the history of this continent.
I have made no secret of the many
Spanish exploration documents of the past which I have in my collection which
today is no big feat and they are available to anyone who has enough desire to
seek them out. I have read these documents over and over and one thing that
seemed to slip past me for years but I began to take notice of, was that in
reading the words of those who wrote them, it became very clear by the
statements made, these people were looking for evidence of previous occupation
of past Castilian expeditions in the areas of “the” New Mexico, which included Colorado,
Utah, Arizona and a majority of parts of California and Texas. They made
notations along the way in these documents, whenever they encountered Castilian
Grapes, Flax and Walnuts just to name a few it was noted, how could there be
Castilian Walnuts if Castilians were not there prior? and this can be noted in
Coronado’s first expedition.
From Coronado’s first expedition
into old New Mexico, Alvar Nunez, Marco de Niza and all the way to Antonio de
Espejo, it is clear they were looking for evidences of past explorations prior
to Columbus’s voyage. To give even more credibility to the many references the
academic world seems to never give any heed to the many early maps of the New
World, the very names mentioned upon them found also upon the Tucson artifacts,
Calicuas (Calalus) and Septimania? Why are some written in Latin and not the
old Spanish? Why would the reference of Septimania be on the maps of a culture
who existed between 500 AD and 1000 AD? It was a cool name? Did the
Cartographer just arbitrarily place the cities and the missing lake wherever he
wanted to? At the end of the times of old Septimania is the beginning
recognition of the Castilian.
How is it that certain
cartographers of Spain were able to make such accurate renditions of the
illusive lake Copala if they had never seen it? Someone clearly had seen this
long before, and even the French Moll map in the rendition of the Lake he never
made it to? Lucky I guess.
Lake Uinta Compared
And so it was of no surprise to
me, that portions of Scale Armor, which was for the most part discontinued in
its usage especially by the Roman Empire by the 13th century, was
found in the very regions in which the Tucson artifacts evidences speak of,
Western Texas and Northern New Mexico.
It is humorous to read the
excuses the academics come up with regarding the reasons they were found here,
One individual… excusist? Shall we call them, stated that of the Roman armor
scale found in Aztec New Mexico, that is was likely a family air loom brought
to the Americas by Coronado or one of his men and lost. What? Of which of you
is going to join a Spanish expedition into the savage unknown as a soldier and
drag a family air loom along over 3000 miles of sea, and then another 2000
miles north into the savage regions of the Indigenous?
Scales from Aztec New Mexico
Another individual made the
statement that it was likely left over armor from the past and used by Spanish
soldiers, "as it was known" that those Spanish soldier had to provide
their own armor? Yet of course no references was given to this ridiculous
conclusion. I challenge any of the academics to provide written documents
stating that the Spanish soldiers who enlisted to join these PAID expeditions
with a high expectation of death, were not PROVIDED with all that they needed
and required to bring their own armor?
HOWEVER…. I am NOT saying that
these two discoveries ARE as result of Roman occupation of the Americas, I AM
suggesting that the possibility is there, the likely hood of Armor of any kind
surviving the elements of time, since the Roman colonies came here in 700 A.D.
and expelled as late as 1000 A.D. is next to slim, however there is one
possible means…
In two primary articles
concerning these artifacts, one of them apparently saw the possibility, as
reading through it, it would seem the objective was not only to blame their
existence on the Spanish, but to completely rule out the possibility of being
of Roman origins and this I believe is because they were well aware of the
discovery of the controversial Tucson Lead artifacts found in 1927.
Now for a little fun…
Here is one of the Reports, which
I find is written in seeming desperation to keep a possible cat in the bag, it was
from 1999 HUGH C. ROGERS AND DONALD J. LAROCCA.
(Pay attention to the careful but
incriminating words chosen by Rogers and Larocca in this intended diversion
article)
The article reads:
Six Armor Scales from New Mexico
Probably
Spanish, 15th to 16th Century Iron and wool (Dimensions
given)… [Probably? This means they might not be, but of course they do not
go there… can you say speculation? how about diversion? If not Spanish origin,
then who? If the history is correct and the academics know it, why use the word
probably?]
These
six scales come from a group of approximately three to four hundred recovered
from a region of New Mexico that the Spanish explored and later colonized in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [Of course they had to open with
this to get you focused on Spanish which of course is a possibility]
Originally
the scales would have been riveted in an overlapping pattern, like shingles, to
the outside of a leather or textile jacket (traces of fiber, apparently wool, remain
under some of rivet heads).
They
are important as the only examples of scale armor to have been found in the new
world. [I wonder why that is? I mean if the Spanish were using them, why
haven’t others been found? It is unknown whether Rogers and Larocca knew of the
Texas find at the time of this article, but make no mistake, they most
certainly knew of the Tucson Lead crosses discovered in 1927] They are also interesting because they
represent a form of armor that appears
to have stopped being used in Europe well before the colonization of the
American southwest. [about 300 years prior]
Scale
armor is an extremely ancient form of defense, with surviving fragments from
the Middle East dating as early as about 1700 B.C. In Europe variation of scale
armor were used from the Roman period through the end of the Middle Ages. [1300
AD] Full-torso armor of scale went out of
fashion after the mid fourteenth
century A. D. [None of the other soldiers were wearing them so to get the
girls they had to wear the new in style solid armor… Fashion? Really?] But some scaled armor continued to be made
and worn in certain circumstances as late as the seventeenth century. [Of
course notice there is no reference or evidence to back up this statement, I
for one would like to see it]
The
coat of scales from which the museums examples must have come was probably
[there’s that word again] owned by two or three generations where it was
brought to New Mexico presumably [I should say so] on a Spanish expedition of the late sixteenth or seventeenth century. [Those
poor soldier being made to go to school in out of style armor, the other
soldiers no doubt made fun of them, kidding set aside, this is a possible
solution to the presents of this type of armor being found on this continent] The armor was most likely worn by a soldier
of modest means who could not afford more up-to date equipment, as was the case
with many soldiers who came to the new world to seek their fortune. [in all
that I have read regarding the Spanish explorations, I have never seen any
suggesting of this, however possible, show me the facts]
You can always tell by the use of
words, what the intended purpose of an article is… Why not just call them
forgeries? Wouldn’t it have been easier?
Scale Armor Found in Texas in 1870
Now this other possibility I
spoke of early is this…
ONLY two of this type of
artifacts have been found, contrary to popular academic belief, hundreds if not
thousands of Spaniards have traveled these regions and killed I might add, it
just seems to me that if there were SOME Spanish soldiers using this type of
armor which even the academics knew had been discontinued in about 1300 A.D. it
would seem that MUCH more than two discoveries of it would exist. But it is
possible…
One discovery was in North West
Texas in 1870, and the other in Aztec New Mexico in 1920. The Texas find was
quite well preserved with cloth and leather still intact holding the Armor
scale together but the New Mexico discovery was what you would expect to find,
with solid but rusted scales with very little evidence of cloth remaining, if
it were in fact of the early Spanish occupation.
There is one hypothesis that is
no more ridiculous than the excuses offered by the academic write up, in fact I
find it to be much more plausible. The indigenous each have their legends of an
ancient enemy long before the Spanish, an enemy who were clad in Iron and whose
weapons were so terrible their braves would fall to the earth long before their
arrows could reach the enemy, many legends of a pale skin enemy of the past
exist among them.
If in fact Romans came to this
place of which is told by the Tucson artifacts, and the many other
corroborating evidences ignored, it is HIGHLY likely that several of these “costa de malla” would have been strewn all over after a battle and if no
one ever disturbed them leaving them where they fell, there is NO WAY any of
them could have survived the elements of time from 1000 A.D. and today or even
100 years ago there would be nothing left of them. HOWEVER…. Do you think after
a battle the indigenous in wonder might have examined the very thing which they
noticed protected their enemy? Do you think that several of these were taken
and incorporated into their own usage in war? To say no, would be like the
United States military finding advanced weaponry of their enemy, and leaving it
lie… Do we have evidence of this? Yes we do… and if the Indigenous gathered up
these advantages in war, they would most likely have stored them in places
where they could have easily survived these elements of time, and used them for
themselves.
This is what I think is the
source of the Aztec New Mexico find, and likely the Texas find is the result of
finding the remains of an Indigenous
warrior who fell in battle either against the Spanish or even a rivaling tribe.
Recently I saw on History channel
a report of the Aztec New Mexico discovery, each of the archaeologist when
making reference to the scales kept repeating back and forth “Scale Mail” mail
meaning scales or small plates, I did not understand this at first, but in all
the expedition documents I have ever read and the many histories of the Spanish
conquest, not common to the public the WORDS USED is “cotas de malla” this is
also what you find in the archaeologist reports of the same, are these people
really that lazy?
Cotas de malla is the
words used in the old documents, the translating of this phrase is Coats
of MESH, it DOES NOT translate to Coats of Scale or their new
indoctrinated nick name of Scale Mail. Why is this so
important? It would seem the effort is to convince you that all the references
to Cotas
de Malla in the old documents is referring to these Scale
Armors that have been found and convincing you that it was common among the
Spanish in the 1500’s and 1600’s of which it was NOT. MESH Armor however was,
because Scale armor had not been used nor even manufactured since the 1300’s, WIKI
at least got it partially right.
Have you heard of Iron Shirt or Chief
Iron Jacket? 1790-1858. Iron Jacket was a War Chief of the Comanche and
if history has portrayed him correctly, he was known for his arrogance and his
ability to blow bullets aside with his breath, this because of his habit of
wearing his “Coat of Mail” again misusing the term, had it been a coat of Mail,
Mail being the mistranslation of Malla which should be MESH, then Iron Jacket
would have been wearing MESH Armor, which he was not, of the many descriptions
given, it is clear he was wearing SCALE armor NOT MESH. Where did he get this
scale armor? This is an excellent example of the hypothesis of the Indigenous
using ancient Armor of the past and now it seems an effort is made to convince
you that the ONLY possible scenario is they exist as a result of the Spanish
arrival to this continent.
Roman Colonies were HERE long
before Columbus! Academics refer to them as Pueblo people… And there were many
others who came prior to them. Why is this possibility seemingly such a threat
to them or the system of control whom they adhere, Smithsonian.
Are you able to share any of your sources?
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