A massive carving of three seated cats over 2000 years old has been discovered at Chalcatzingo in Mexico.
"Carved in a vaguely Olmec style into a stone monolith, the seated jaguars—or possibly mountain lions—may have been part of a decorative hillside wall that was crawling with big-cat carvings," according to National Geographic News.
"The circa 700 B.C. carving, dubbed the 'Triad of Felines' by archaeologists, was found about 60 miles (a hundred kilometers) south of Mexico City at Chalcatzingo, an archaeological site known to have had ties to the Olmec civilization."

Collapsing the Maya by Roger Sandall
Michael Crichton, reviewing Culture Cult for the Wall Street Journal, wrote:
"In 'The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays,' anthropologist Roger Sandall explores romantic primitivism--the myth of Eden and the Noble Savage. Mr. Sandall's histories of utopian communities (Robert Owen's New Harmony, John Humphrey Noyes's disastrous Oneida) are vivid, and his portraits of leading primitivists, from Rousseau to Mead to Levi-Strauss, are sharply drawn. This ignorant nostalgia for our tribal past ignores the truly horrific reality of tribal initiation, warfare, mutilation and human sacrifice." (Source: WSJ Opinion Archives)
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