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Rock ArtSite Name: Las Labradas
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 239.929 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Mazatlan  Nearest Village: San Ignacio
Latitude: 23.620000N  Longitude: 106.768W
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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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5 Access:
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Las Labradas
Las Labradas submitted by Andy B : Some of the rock art. Site in Mexico Image credit: Las Labradas Archaeological project (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Sinaloa. The Las Labradas Archaeological Zone is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, in Northwestern Mexico, With an area of 17 hectares, the site has the highest concentration of petroglphs in Mexico - around 600.

It is the only site in the world of its kind that is located within a coastal tide zone.

More at : laslabradas.com/

The site includes a small museum.

Note: Who created Las Labradas petroglyphs?
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Las Labradas
Las Labradas submitted by Flickr : The summer solstice at Las Labradas archaeological site. Image copyright: La Rebelión de los Tornillos (Mierdamian Rondana), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Las Labradas
Las Labradas submitted by Flickr : Las Labradas Site in Mexico Image copyright: Cristhian Elizalde (Cristhian Elizalde), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Las Labradas
Las Labradas submitted by Flickr : Las Labradas petroglyphs Site in Mexico Image copyright: allaboutmexicophotos, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Las Labradas
Las Labradas submitted by Flickr : Las Labradas Site in Mexico Image copyright: Cristhian Elizalde (Cristhian Elizalde), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Las Labradas
Las Labradas submitted by Flickr : HDR image of Las Labradas, an archaeological site with 600m of beach with more than 600 different petroglyphs. Image copyright: La Rebelión de los Tornillos (Mierdamian Rondana), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Las Labradas
Las Labradas submitted by Andy B : A reenactment event. Site in Mexico Image credit: Las Labradas Archaeological project

Las Labradas
Las Labradas submitted by Andy B : Overview of the site. Site in Mexico Image credit: Las Labradas Archaeological project

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Who created Las Labradas petroglyphs? by bat400 on Monday, 14 October 2013
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Fifty miles north of Mazatlan in Sinaloa State, north west Mexico, there is a beach known as Las Labradas where the rocks are covered in over 600 petroglyphs. Now Mexican investigators have uncovered archaeological sites in the vicinity dating to the Archaic period (2500-1000 BCE) along with another later site that may provide clues to the creators of the Las Labradas petroglyphs.

To date there are 22 locations around the rocky outcrop with evidence of human activity, of which, between 2010 and 2012, four were studied: The Flower of the Ocean, The Sprig, Lomas del Mar and Arroyo La Lomita.

Joel Santos Ramirez, from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and his team discovered an Aztatlán (750-1250 CE) site, consisting of ceramics and a multiple burial of five individuals: two adult males, two adolescents (one male and one female) and a possible female infant.

All except the child have dental mutilation with “V” filed teeth and two had cranial deformation, cultural practices that were common among the peoples of Sinaloa.

The physical characteristics of the burial allowed Joel Santos to attribute the site to a local culture fitting into the chronology of the western Aztatlán, corresponding to between 1250 and 750 years ago, contemporary with the Postclassic Mesoamerican ‘Chicayota‘.

Among the pottery discovered was one piece, decorated with concentric circles which is one of the symbolic elements present in many of the Las Labradas petroglyphs, though it is still difficult to relate to the rock engravings to the settlements under investigation and whether they belong to the earliest inhabitants of Sinaloa or the later Chicayota culture.

Ramirez suggests that it may even be both cultures as people who created rock art may have been following older traditions.

At the Lomas del Mar site, more pottery and shell debris from the Aztatlán period was discovered and also at Arroyo La Lomita, located 3 kilometres inland, though this time the ceramics and artefacts were associated with petroglyphs.


In addition to these later sites, Ramirez has found another which will “change the timeline on the antiquity of human occupation in the northwest of the country”.

It was at the Flower of the Ocean site -located in what was the mouth of the creek – where they found 60 projectile points (20 complete and 40 fragmentary), representing the oldest evidence of human presence in the region.

Until these discoveries, the earliest site in north-western Mexico dated to circa 2000 BCE and had been excavated by archaeologist Joseph Mountjoy in 1972.

Ramirez reported that in addition to projectile points they found a host of other stone artefacts including fragments of stone tools and cores, scrapers and hammers, flakes and other debitage, all confirming the existence of temporary camps and a lithic manufacturing workshop where projectile points were created.

Thanks to coldrum and neolithique02 for the link. For more, see http://www.pasthorizonspr.com
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4,000-Year-Old Spearheads Found in Mexico by bat400 on Sunday, 04 August 2013
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Researchers discovered 4,000-year-old spearheads and other artifacts at a site in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said.

The find "will change the chronologies of the antiquity of human settlement in the northwest of the country," archaeologist Joel Santos Ramirez said.

The items reflect a rudimentary technology also seen in artifacts from the U.S. Southwest, from what is now the central Mexican state of Puebla and in some desert regions of northern Mexico.

Archaeologists found the spearheads at a site they dubbed La Flor del Oceano, 50 kilometers north of the Pacific resort city of Mazatlan and near a set of rock engravings known as Las Labradas.

The spearheads turned up in the course of search for where the makers of the rock engravings lived, said Santos, the director of the Las Labradas project.



Along with the spear-points, researchers discovered knives and tool fragments, he said.

The distribution of the artifacts would indicate the presence of temporary encampments and a workshop, Santos said, while acknowledging that the team still doesn't know if the items belonged to the creators of Las Labradas.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. Source: latino.foxnews.com
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