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Rock ArtSite Name: Cantil de las animas Alternative Name: Soul Ledge
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 34.074 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Mexico Other Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Tepic, Nayarit  Nearest Village: Jesus Maria Cortes, Nayarit
Latitude: 21.724000N  Longitude: 104.879W
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Rock Art in Nayarit.
A complex panel of petroglyphs attributed to the Azltan culture, and therefore dated to between 850 and 1350 AD. The panel is about 4 meters long and 2 meters wide, and is located in the mountian region above the Pacific coastal heart of the Azlatan culture.

Archaeologist Manuel Garduño Ambriz describes figures as symbolic of fertility (rain clouds, sectioned snail shells, and feminine vulvae) and others as representing faces and skulls which point to the east, "towards the sunrise.”

Mauricio Garduño believes the panel may have been placed at this location to take advantage of an astronomical alignments or features associated with the Azlatan ritual calendar.

The site is being documented.

Source:
Thanks to Jackdaw1 for the original forum thread.
Press releases from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH,) including this slide show.

Note: Mexican archaeologists find complex panel of 1,000 year-old petroglyphs in Nayarit. See comment.
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Mexican archaeologists find complex panel of 1,000 year-old petroglyphs in Nayarit by bat400 on Monday, 28 January 2013
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Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History recently found a complex panel of petroglyphs that must have been carved between 850 and 1350 AD (some of which are over 1,000 years old), in a site called “Cantil de las animas” [Soul Ledge.]

The bas-relief symbolic representations, which are attributed to ancient groups of the Aztlan culture, were located in a practically new archeological zone of the region –Nayarit’s mountainous zone of the southern high plateau..

Manuel Garduño Ambriz from INAH Center in Nayarit, divides the petroglyph panel composition in two parts.
“In the eastern half we found designs related to fertility-fecundity: rain clouds, sectioned snail shells, and feminine vulvae; in the western half, we found cranium profiles whose front point to the east, precisely towards the sunrise.”

Mauricio Garduño also pointed out that within the group of petroglyphs of “Cantil de las animas” it’s also possible to recognize two distinct pictorial styles of Aztlan’s iconography, the one with realistic or figurative representations of curved design, and schematic designs, that are distinguished by their rigid angular lines.

Another important aspect that must be investigated (in regard to the petroglyphs), is to determine if it was also used as an astronomical indicator since the vertical level in which these designs are oriented is over an east-west axis.

Mauricio Garduño believes that the archaeological investigations in Nayarit should be studied more thoroughly to determine if the the symbolic regionalization of space has a link to patterns of settlement. However, we must recognize the contributions of ethnologists, who, since the XIX century, have been studying the indigenous communities in the cultural region called Gran Nayar.

The petroglyph panel discovered in “Cantil de las animas” is also relevant because it is located in an almost unknown area to the region’s archaeology. Investigator Mauricio Garduño added that since the archaeological rescue works that took place in the 90’s, in the basin of the Santiago and Huaynamota rivers, there hadn’t been any systematic exploration labors in valleys and hill lands nearby.

Thanks to Jackdaw1 for the link. For more see artdaily.org and INAH multimedia.
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