In my previous post I referred to the new tektites from Belize as" Zapotectites". Geologist Jean Cornec is the one that perhaps should name them as his unpublished paper and its appearance on a website is the start of the new strewnfield's recognition. I noticed the paper about a month after posting. When I informed Hal Povenmire of the posting he quickly published on the subject and referred to them as Central American tektites. That is a fine name but we don't refer to the Central European tektites as such but instead as Moldavite (Czechs use Vlatavine). In a much earlier posting I made this year I had called the new tektites "Mayanites" because the first discoveries in Guatemala and Belize were all in the greater Mayan influence. But "Mayanite" is used as part of a name for something referred to as "Mayanite Rainbow Quartz". Perhaps a good common name should refer to the particular subset of Maya in the tektite region, namely the Zapotec. "Zapotectite", or perhaps more correctly "Zapotecite" would then be a possible moniker for the new discoveries. I just use it because it fits for me; time and common usage will be the ultimate dictator.
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