FINDING LOST CIVILIZATIONS This

of disease, warfare, and slavery led to the extinction of theTecoxquines. Because the Tecoxquines left no written recordand became extinct within just a few decades, littlewas known about them and much was left to speculation ormyth. For example, when the legend of the Apostle Matthewarose the Tecoxquines had already become extinct, so thetrue origin of their crosses is only speculative. But becauseof the number of petroglyphs found at Alta Vista it is believedthat this area was their central religious site.Although my father and I had visited Alta Vista the pre-Spiral and cross at the sanctuary, Alta Vista, Nayarit, Mexico.90