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<< Our Photo Pages >> La Quemada - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico in Zacatecas

Submitted by SolarMegalith on Thursday, 07 May 2015  Page Views: 7720

Multi-periodSite Name: La Quemada
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 54.292 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Zacatecas Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Villanueva
Latitude: 22.456838N  Longitude: 102.821422W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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La Quemada
La Quemada submitted by SolarMegalith : La Quemada - Piramide Votiva (Votive Pyramid) is over 10 m high. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient City in Zacatecas.
Las Quemada was one of the largest Pre-Colombian cities in area of current Zacatecas. It was occupied since 200 AD to 1000 AD, with heyday around 500 AD. Among the main buildings there is over 10 m high Piramide Votiva (Votive Pyramid), Palacio de las Columnas (Palace of the Columns) and Ciudadela (Citadel).

The ruins are located around top of a hill with Citadel on its top.

Note: Bone analysis reveals violent history of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica. See comment.
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La Quemada submitted by SolarMegalith : Piramide de los Sacrificios - possible site of placing ritual offerings. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bone analysis reveals violent history of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by bat400 on Thursday, 07 May 2015
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A pair of archeologists with Arizona State University has found evidence of different types of bone treatment among people that lived at the La Quemada archaeological site approximately 1,500 years ago in what is now modern Mexico. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ben Nelson and Debra Martin describe their findings after studying bones excavated from the site.

The research pair looked at bones from the site dating back to 500–900 C.E. and discovered the remains of those who had died or were killed were treated very differently depending on whether they were from their own people or were those of enemies. Bones found inside the compound, they noted showed signs of being treated with respect, whereas those outside were not only abused, but showed evidence of cannibalism.

During the time when the people were living there, the researchers note, the area was under stress, enduring upheaval due to rapid change—Teotihuacan city had collapsed and a new society was under development, one that consisted of multiple smaller scale groups living across the Northern Frontier. That inevitably led to violence, which the researchers note, can be seen in how the bodies of the vanquished were treated. The bones show marks indicative of cutting and were also splintered and sometimes burned—all signs of both abuse and cannibalism. They also found skulls with holes bored in them, which seems to suggest they were hung for still living enemies to see, a means perhaps, of warding off further attacks. Other evidence of the violence that occurred was the architecture itself, fortresses meant to keep invaders at bay.

Meanwhile, bones found inside the compound showed signs of a different kind of cut marks—shallow indentations, which generally are attributable to defleshing and desiccation, both signs of veneration of the dead. That suggests those people were loved ones, in some cases, possibly even ancestors, rather than immediate relatives.

The researchers suspect that the much of the conflict between groups in the area at the time was ethnically based, but will need to do isotopic and DNA analysis to confirm their theory.

For more, see phys.org/news and the abstract of the paper, Symbolic bones and interethnic violence in a frontier zone, northwest Mexico, ca. 500–900 C.E. by Neson and Martin, 2015..
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