必勝課英語高考聽力周周練March Week 1
Vocabulary
statue – /ˈstætʃuː/ n. 雕像、塑像
represent – /ˌreprɪˈzent/ vt. 代表、表現
institute – /ˈɪnstɪtjuːt/ n. 機構、研究所
hairpiece – /ˈheəpiːs/ n. 假髮
anthropology – /ˌænθrəˈpɒlədʒi/ n. 人類學
Hispanic – /hɪˈspænɪk/ adj. 西班牙的
Aztec – /ˈæzˌtek/ n. 阿芝特克人
archeological – /,ɑːkɪə'lɒdʒɪkəl/ adj. 考古學的
stance – /stæns/ n. 姿勢、立場、觀點
successor – /səkˈsesə/ n. 繼任者、繼承者
conquest – /ˈkɒŋkwest/ n. 佔領地區
Mayan – /ˈmɑːjən/ adj. 瑪雅人的
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The newly found statue might date back to around .
According to an archeologist, archeology works best with .
Farmers were digging among fruit trees on a farm on Mexico's coast when they found a big surprise: a stone statue almost two meters tall. The female statue may represent an influential woman rather than a goddess, or some mix of the two, experts said earlier this month.
The National Institute of Anthropology and History said this was the first such statue in the Huasteca area of Mexico.
The statue had a complex hairpiece and showed evidence that the female subject may have held a high status. The piece may date to around 1450 to 1521, the institute said. The place where it was found is near El Tajin, a pre-Hispanic city from the early 9th to 13th centuries. But the statue shows some influences of the Aztecs.
The farmers found the piece on New Year's Day and quickly reported it to officials. The area where it was found had not been known to be an archeological site. And the statue may have been moved from another, unknown site.
The person represented by the open-mouthed, wide-eyed statue remains a mystery.
Institute archaeologist María Eugenia Maldonado Vite wrote that "this could be a ruler," based on her stance and clothing. She may not have been a goddess.
Susan Gillespie is an anthropology professor at the University of Florida.
She said Aztec documents from colonial times made note of women "rulers" who passed their power on to successors. "Women were highly valued in the pre-Hispanic" times and lost their status only after the Spanish conquest, Gillespie added.
However, she noted that "if there is only one such find, it's hard to say" how important it is or even if it is correctly identified. Archaeology works best with repeated findings, she explained.
In 1994 at the Mayan ruin site of Palenque, archaeologists found the tomb of a woman called The Red Queen. That name came from the red color that covered her tomb, which dates to between 600 and 700 A.D. But it has never been clearly established that the woman was a ruler of Palenque.
Answers
1450 to 1521
repeated findings