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<< Text Pages >> Purepecha Digs - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico

Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 18 November 2006  Page Views: 4933

Multi-periodSite Name: Purepecha Digs
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 75.588 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 19.465900N  Longitude: 102.25W
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
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Settlement and Burial in Michoacan State, Mexico.
The dig site is for a late Archaic culture that has been named after the historic Indian people of this area of Michoacan. It includes the oldest known burial site in MesoAmerica - 2570 BC to 2320 BC.

Artifacts indicate the people traded or collected raw materials from outside of the immediate area, cultivated squash and corn (maize,) and had a society with some level of social stratification.

The location given is approximate and actually cites the peak of the Paricutin Volcano which towers over the dig site.

Note: Bizarre dentures. See the attached article on this burial:
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Fang Dentures found with Oldest MesoAmerican Burial by bat400 on Saturday, 18 November 2006
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This article was originally submitted by coldrum.

A man whose 4,500-year-old bones were found in Mexico may have worn ceremonial dentures made from jaguar or wolf fangs, an archaeologist claims.

The find is said to represent one of the earliest examples of dentistry in the Americas.

The man's remains were found in volcanic ash beneath a cliff painted with ancient rock art in a remote mountain region of western Mexico.

Many pre-Hispanic Mexican cultures revered wild animals like jaguars. The Maya, for example, believed the big cat ruled the underworld.

James Chatters, an archaeologist and palaeontologist with Amec Earth and Environmental and a member of the research team, said the man's upper and front teeth had been removed - possibly to insert a ceremonial denture made from the palate of a wolf or a jaguar.

"Such a denture might be something like the mouthparts of a predatory animal or some fierce animal of some sort," he said.

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