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Multi-periodSite Name: Tayata
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 54.986 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Santa Cruz Tayata
Latitude: 17.350000N  Longitude: 97.57W
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Ancient Village in Oaxaca, Mexico.
This site predates Classical Period (500BCE - 700CE) Mixteca Culture. It was settled as early as 1000 BCE and abandoned by 300 BCE. Grave goods and housing patterns indicate that at its height the village may have been a political center.

Digs and surveys carried out by Andrew Balkansky and other researchers from Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) have been funded by the National Science Foundation and National Geographic. These excavations have sought to determine the origins of the Classical Mixteca civilization, with its social hierarchy.

Note: Earliest Mixtec Cremations found - Origins of Funeral Traditions for the Elite that carried on to the Aztecs.
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Re: Tayata by davidmorgan on Friday, 25 January 2019
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Mixtec nobles are depicted in codices and other proto-historic documentation taking part in funerary rites involving cremation. The time depth for this practice was unknown, but excavations at the early village site of Tayata, in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, recovered undisturbed cremation burials in contexts dating from the eleventh century B.C. These are the earliest examples of a burial practice that in later times was reserved for Mixtec kings and Aztec emperors.
Human cremation in Mexico 3,000 years ago by William N. Duncan et al.
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Earliest Mixtec Cremations Show Elite Ate Dog by bat400 on Wednesday, 30 April 2008
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Originally submitted by Coldrum ---

An ancient burial site in Mexico contains evidence that Mixtec Indians conducted funerary rituals involving cremation as far back as 3,000 years ago.
The find represents the earliest known hints that Mixtecs used this burial practice, which was later reserved for Mixtec kings and Aztec emperors, according to researchers who excavated the site.
Evidence from the site also suggests that a class of elite leaders emerged among the Mixtecs as early as 1100 B.C.

The team excavated two graves in the ancient Mixtec village of Tayata, which is in the state of Oaxaca along Mexico's southern Pacific coast.

The corpses were placed into the graves, burned, and then buried near a dwelling that was probably their home.

One set of remains is thought to belong to a young woman who was between 18 and 25 years old.

The team was unable to determine the gender of the other person, but they think that this individual could have been between 15 and 25 years old.

Co-author Heather Lapham, a zooarchaeologist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, said the team also found bones of dogs, deer, and fish—indications that the residents ate well and thus probably were of a higher social status.

In fact, Lapham said, the excavation revealed that dogs were "a major component of their diet."

According to co-author Andrew Balkansky, also of Southern Illinois, the Mixtecs may have believed that ritual cremation of bodies would release the souls of the deceased.

"The idea was that, basically, you'd have someone's soul ascend to the heavens in the smoke," Balkansky said.

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