An intense auroral z-pinch recorded in antiquity on southwestern artifacts

Summary form only given. A direct correlation of several tens of morphologies of Z-pinch instabilities to archaic petroglyphs, thought to date to 5000-4000 BCE, has been made. The accuracy of the petroglyphs in depicting MHD instabilities suggests the influx to Earth of intense plasma visible as highly collimated synchrotron light from sub-gigaampere currents. Here we analyze an ancient Mixtec ceremonial shield or chimalli from a cave in Acatlan, Mexico, in terms of intense auroral sheath structure. The chimalli is a 30 cm wooden shield of concentric circles and inner pattern. The outer centric contains 28 holes adjacent to a ring of 56 pairs (112) of polished turquoise stones. For comparison, some hundreds of petroglyphs found on all continents having 56 outer dots or rays and concentric circles provide a universal comparison template. Thin multi-megaampere plasma sheaths show 56 current filaments, depicting 56 adjacent pairs. Fast 3D PIC simulations of the interacting currents show a rapidly evolving complex center subject to cultural interpretation, the most creative found between 15 and 25 deg, north, i.e., Mesoamerica and India