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<< Text Pages >> Miramar - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico in Campeche

Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 14 January 2013  Page Views: 2145

Multi-periodSite Name: Miramar Alternative Name: Old Bolonchen
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 2.32 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Campeche Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Campeche  Nearest Village: Bolonchen
Latitude: 20.004000N  Longitude: 89.747W
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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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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Ancient Settlement in Campeche.
Dating to Classic and Post Classic periods. Quarried for stone in 19th - 20th centuries. A few monuments with sculpture and hieroglyphic texts are still visible. 100 meters north of the main structures there is a semi-dry cave (known as Miramar, Actun Huachap, or Huachabi.)

The cave is known for brownish red and red linear "stick" figures from both the pre and post colonial era.

Sources include: Images from the Underworld: Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting By Andrea J. Stone.
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Archaeologists find Maya ceramics, mural paintings in Mexican caves by bat400 on Monday, 14 January 2013
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Press release from the Underwater Archaeology Section (SAS) of National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH): To Helena Barba Meinecke, responsible for all the underwater archaeology of the Yucatan peninsula, the detailed registry of the cenote, as well as the archaeological elements found in them, confirm the speculation that these places were used for rituals in the pre Hispanic era.

"The explorations of the Underwater Archaeology Atlas project, carried out during the first half of last November, continued in the semidry cave of Huachabi, Campeche, where the findings were of no less in importance.

"This cave – with more than 500 meters (1640.41 feet) in length at its widest part, also has two slopes – is found inside the Miramar archaeological site, still unexplored in the Chenes region. Inside the cave, which one must rappel 20 meters (65.61 feet) to get through, there are nearly 50 spaces with offerings of distinct proportions.

"Carbon samples were taken to estimated the approximate date while archaeologist Eunice Uc, investigator of the INAH Center – Yucatan, works on defining the ceramic types to provide an appropriate timeline; the context of the ceramic elements has been preliminarily supposed to date back to the Classic Mayan period (600 – 900 AD).

"Also, next to these materials, fragments of mural paintings were detected in different chambers of the cave. The small symmetry between their designs (anthropomorphic as well as representations of vegetables and insects that inhabit the subterranean environment), and the fact that they were elaborated with red clay, taken from inside the cave, could mean these were older than the rest of the elements found."

Thankd to coldrum for the link. For more, see Art Daily.

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