The Aztec Ruin.EarlH. Morris

Covering the Aztec Diamond

There are 107 non-isomorphic coverings of the Aztec diamond of order 5 by the 25 one-sided tetrasticks. In [6] Donald Knuth describes how to attack certain types of puzzles by computer. One type of puzzle he tried to solve is the covering of patterns by tetrasticks. Tetrasticks — or more general polysticks — were introduced by Brian Barwell [1]: Pieces made from a fixed number of line segments ...

Aztec medicine.

THE discovery of America placed the European nations in contact with three major civilizations, the Aztec in the Mexican plateau, the Maya in the Yucatan peninsula, and the Inca in the Peruvian Andes. The Mayas had been settled for centuries in the same area and developed a civilization with high cultural manifestations, whereas the Aztecs and Incas, in spite of their political power and strong...

Aztec Art

The AzTEC mm-wavelength camera

AzTEC is a mm-wavelength bolometric camera utilizing 144 silicon nitride micromesh detectors. Here, we describe the AzTEC instrument architecture and its use as an astronomical instrument. We report on several performance metrics measured during a three-month observing campaign at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and conclude with our plans for AzTEC as a facility instrument on the Large Milli...

Aztec Culture: an Overview

Aztec culture flourished in the highlands of central Mexico between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, AD. As the last in a series of complex urban civilizations in Mesoamerica, the Aztecs adopted many traits and institutions from their predecessors such as the Maya and Teotihuacan. The Aztecs also devised many innovations, particularly in the realms of economics and politics. Aztec civilizat...