Indigenous style inside colonial architecture: Tequitqui (Mexico, 1500s, Indigenous carvers' symbols in church stonework); Andean "Mestizo Baroque" (pumas, sirens,…

SUMMARYIndigenous style inside colonial architecture: Tequitqui (Mexico, 1500s, Indigenous carvers' symbols in church stonework); Andean "Mestizo Baroque" (pumas, sirens, tropical fruit, Andean gods on cathedral facades); tabby concrete on the Sea Islands and in Florida (origin debated among Spanish, African and Native shell-building traditions; Native shell mounds on the same coast). Record

OPEN"colonial records faked to cover pre-existing buildings" (test: foundations, stonework or mortar older than the claimed date; mismatched construction records; pre-colonial accounts of a standing structure; Cusco = proven case of colonial on top of older).