National Geographic December 1980

CONDITION 

·        Magazine, Acceptable, clean pages; reading wear, may have cover wear

·       Map May be Missing

CONTENTS

·        The Aztecs – Warriors, farmers, master builders, and poets, they honored their gods with human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism, ruled a mighty empire in Mexico, yet fell to a few bold Spanish conquistadors. Bart McDowell tells of a complex people, who still live; photographer David Hiser, artist Felipe Ddvalos, and a double map portray their world.

·        Tenochtitlan’s Glory – Professor Augusto F Molina Montes details the full magnificence of the Aztecs’ island capital.

·        The Great Temple – Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, who bears the famed Aztec emperor’s name, coordinates excavation of a multishelled pyramid in the heart of Mexico City.

·        Coal Versus Parklands – Amid natural splendors of the U.S. Southwest looms a national dilemma; To keep parks and canyons inviolate, or to tap an energy bonanza buried beneath them. Is there a middle way? Francois Ledyet and Dewitt Jones report the issue.

·        New Course for Portugal – In the wake of bloodless revolution at home and surrender of an empire abroad, the Portuguese are rebuilding their political and economic foundations. By Williams Graves and photographer Bruno Barbey.

·        Fatima: Beacon of Faith – Nearly a million pilgrims come each year to a Portuguese village where three children said they saw and talked with the Virgin Mary in 1917. Photo-essay by Bruno Barbey, text by Jane Vessels.

·        Jackals of the Serengeti – Zoologist Patricia D Moehlman, from long and close study, explains why the hunter-scavengers of the African plains are greatly misunderstood.

COVER

·        Ritual obsidian knife, symbol of those that cuet the hearts from Aztec Sacrificial victims, grins form a cache unearthed in the Great Temple. Photograph by David Hiser

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