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<< Text Pages >> Deportivo Cali Tombs - Barrow Cemetery in Colombia

Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 13 March 2007  Page Views: 8431

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Deportivo Cali Tombs
Country: Colombia
NOTE: This site is 213.826 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Cali
Latitude: 3.477000N  Longitude: 76.503W
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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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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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Ancient Cemetery in Valle del Cauca State, Colombia.
Approximately four dozen tombs found on the building site of the Deportivo Cali football team. Age is estimated at 500BC to 500AD.

When completed the Estadio Deportivo Cali will seat 58,000 fans. At this time the details of any preservation of the site of the tombs is unknown. The location given is approximate for the area of town where the stadium is being built.

Note: See the attached comment on this discovery and the contents of the tombs.
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Builders Discover 46 Ancient Tombs in Colombia by bat400 on Tuesday, 13 March 2007
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Submitted by coldrum ---

A group of construction workers stumbled upon 46 ancient tombs, between 1,500 and 2,500 years old while digging to build a new soccer stadium in Deportivo Cali in southwestern Colombia, an archaeologist team said on Wednesday.

The tombs were found in Malagana, on the basin of the Cauca River. Anthropologist Jose Rodriguez, who headed a team from Colombia's National University, said that the tombs showed evidence of cannibalism and warrior activities.

On the building site, experts found human bones, primarily radius and ulna bones. Rodriguez said that this indicates ritual cannibalism. According to him the community members tried to acquire shamanic powers by eating human bone marrow or brain.

The anthropologists said that they also found the first female shaman in Colombia. She was identified because she was discovered buried face down, the position used even now in the Amazon by shamans, who believe that a face-up burial allows shamanic energies to escape the grave and harm the community.

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