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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Colima - Eastern Shaft Tomb
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 37.742 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Colima
Latitude: 19.240000N  Longitude: 103.724W
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Comala style redware submitted by bat400_photo : Example of Comala style redware. Dimensions: 43 x 32 x 27 cm Catalog number: 23/8366 Information provided with the permission of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 4th and Independence Ave. S.W., Washington, DC 20560. (http://www.americanindian.si.edu/) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cemetery in Colima State.
A burial site with the remains of some 28 individuals, estimated to be around 1,500 and 2,500 years, discovered by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) east of the city of Colima. The quantity of skeletons found here lead archaeologists to believe this is a pre Hispanic burial site related to western cultures. Grave goods are executed in the 'Comala style.'

Burials are distributed inside and outside of a shaft tomb. The tomb consists of a funerary complex made up by a vertical well of varying depth that leads to a vault where the dead were deposited. National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) -Source of paraphrased text

Note: Archaeologists find human remains of about 28 individuals thought to be approximately 1,500-2,500 years old in western Mexico.
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Ancient Shaman Sculpture found in Tomb by Runemage on Saturday, 15 March 2014
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Ancient shaman discovered in Mexican tomb: 1,500-year-old sculpture found guarding bodies in underground shaft

The tomb, complete with the figure, was uncovered by archaeologists in the city of Villa de Alverez in Colima, Mexico
Six pots of different sizes and human bones were found in the underground burial chamber along with the figure, which measures around 20 inches
Few of the statues have been found intact as many have fallen victim to grave robbers in the region

He has been guarding a tomb for over 1,500 years.

And only now have a team of archaeologists come across a shaman sculpture in an underground burial chamber in the state of Colima, Mexico.

It is unusual to find one of the statues intact as many have fallen victim to tomb raiders over the centuries.

The sculpture has a long face and holds a weapon - probably an axe - to guard the shaft tomb which was covered over by slabs of volcanic rock.

It was uncovered by archaeologists at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) who have become the first people to see the sculpture in hundreds of years.

Archaeologist Marco Zavaleta explained that the model was found in the entrance of an underground funerary space in Villa de Alverez.

'With regards to the figure of the shaman, he was found upright and is holding some kind of weapon, probably an axe. He was placed exactly at the entrance, towards the crypt. He is some kind of a guardian of the main character deposited inside the shaft tomb,' he said.

Sites nearby have recently revealed burials of around 35 adults and three infants in cists - small stone coffin-like boxes or used to hold bodies from a slightly later period.

The square shaft, which is around one-and-a-half metres deep, is thought to date to between 300 AD and 600AD and leads to an underground vault measuring approximately two metres squared, containing bones of either one or two individuals, physical anthropologist Rosa Maria Flores Ramirez explained.

They could have been moved to the sides of the vault to make way for another individual who was found lying on his back, who was presumably buried slightly later.

The ancient shaman figure
The statue is 1,500-years-old and was found in an underground tomb in a city in the state of Colima, Mexico.
It has a long face and holds a weapon to defend the final resting place of wealthy ancient people.
Other shaman figures discovered from the time are more representative of the ancient people, some of whom practiced cranial deformation to elongate their heads
They acted as soul guides for the dead in Meso-American cultures
Six pots and a gourd were also discovered, which further hint at shaman practices.
The figures are rare as many are damaged or stolen by grave robbers.
More details with images and a video Daily Mail
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Mexican archaeologists find more burials in Colima by bat400 on Sunday, 05 January 2014
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Another similar article.

Describes what is thought to have been the main burial of the tomb.

See archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com
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Human remains of about 28 individuals thought to be 1500 - 2500 years old by bat400 on Sunday, 05 January 2014
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A burial site with the osseous remains of some 28 individuals, whose antiquity is estimated to be around 1,500 and 2,500 years, was discovered by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) east of the city of Colima.

Marco Zavaleta Lucido, an archaeologist of the INAH Center in Colima, explained that this area, of about 114 meters square, has burials distributed inside and outside of a shaft tomb. The tomb consists of a funerary complex made up by a vertical well of varying depth that leads to a vault where the dead were deposited. Inside this tomb they located the osseous remains of 10 individuals; around it they found 16 other burials, two of which are double having two skeletons. “At first they identified the burials because of the odd rock groupings that were used to cover them, they also found evidence of ceramic material which drove us deeper into the investigation”, explained Marco Zavaleta. “At the burial’s center –he added– they discovered a unique shaft tomb; unique, because its shaft (1.2 meters [3.9 feet] deep) was covered by a mud mix that had not been found in Colima. “The tomb’s access is a shaft with a 70 centimeter diameter, located 80 centimeters underneath the street. The shaft’s end is decorated with a stepping stone oriented from west to east that allows access to the vault. The vault contains a great quantity of piled up bones in disarray, from which we have identified eight craniums. However, by the great quantity of osseous remains, it’s possible there might be more than 10 individuals”.

According to the archaeologist, the shaft tomb held more than 20 ceramic offerings, among them: pots, bowls, plates, censers and two hollow bowls in the shape of dogs. “By association with the pieces –characteristic in this entity and known in the Comala style–, the osseous remains must date back to the first five hundred years after Christ”, explained the archaeologist.

INAH specialists consider the fact that this funerary space could have been used more than once “maybe as a type of family crypt, where they were deposited after death”; also, given the tomb’s construction and the incorporation of offerings these people could have belonged to the elite, although customary accompanying ornaments have not been found, with the exception of some green beads found near one of the craniums. Around the tomb, two meters away, they found a great quantity of burials, which correspond to wells that were excavated in tepetate “limestone”. Marco Zavaleta indicated that up to date they have only investigated the north and south areas, where they have recovered 16 burials, two of them doubles.

It’s important to mention that 6 of the 16 burials –the double burial counted among them– contained offerings with ceramic objects (pots, bowls, cups, and anthropomorphic female figurines with short skirts, loincloth and a headdress), along with tomb markers at the topmost part, which highlight them among the other funerary spaces and suggests that these could have been individuals with a high social ranks.

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