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Multi-periodSite Name: Ometepe Indigenous CemeteryCountry: Nicaragua
NOTE: This site is 8.717 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Rivas
Latitude: 11.490000N Longitude: 85.55W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an indigenous cemetery on the island of Ometepe in southern Nicaragua. Heavy rains in 2010 uncovered five human skeletons, bone fragments and pieces of pottery which date from 2500 BC to 2200 BC. Pre-Colombian artefacts as well as various petroglyphs have previously been found on Ometepe Island which was originally settled by the Choroteca and Nahuatel people who moved into the region from northern Mexico.
Between 1995 and 1999 The Ometepe Petroglyph Project served the Maderas half of Ometepe and mapped 73 archaeological sites within a 15 square kilometre area, including almost 1700 petroglyph panels on 1400 boulders - see separate page: "Ometepe" for details of the petroglyph project at: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=23158
The spectacularly shaped twin volcano island is located in Lake Cocibolca and is a Unesco's World Network of Biosphere Reserve.
More at:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20100608085648618C265352
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ometepe
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