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<< Text Pages >> El Palenque - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico in Oaxaca

Submitted by davidmorgan on Sunday, 19 May 2013  Page Views: 2018

Multi-periodSite Name: El Palenque
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 8.945 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Oaxaca Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: San Martín Tilcajete
Latitude: 16.877554N  Longitude: 96.696788W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
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 4 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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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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A Zapotec temple precinct dating from about 300 BCE.
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Earliest-known temple precinct in the Valley of Oaxaca by davidmorgan on Friday, 14 October 2016
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Recent excavations at the site of El Palenque have recovered the earliest-known temple precinct in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, dating to the Late Monte Albán I phase (300–100 B.C.). This precinct exhibits characteristics similar to the temple precincts of 16th century Mesoamerican states. A walled enclosure contains differentiated temples, priests’ residences, and ritual features.

We propose that the precinct’s components represent a hierarchy of temples staffed by a specialized full-time priesthood. A series of radiocarbon dates indicate that the El Palenque temple precinct was in use during the 300–100 B.C. period of archaic state emergence in Oaxaca.

Early (300−100 B.C.) temple precinct in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico by Elsa M. Redmond and Charles S. Spencer.
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Oldest Temple in Mexican Valley Hints at Possible Human Sacrifice by davidmorgan on Sunday, 19 May 2013
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A newly discovered temple complex in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, reveals hints of a specialized hierarchy of priests — who may have committed human sacrifice.

The evidence of such sacrifice is far from conclusive, but researchers did uncover a human tooth and part of what may be a human limb bone from a temple room scattered with animal sacrifice remains and obsidian blades. The temple dates back to 300 B.C. or so, when it was in use by the Zapotec civilization of what is now Oaxaca.

Archaeologists have been excavating a site in the valley called El Palenque for years. The site is the center of what was once an independent mini-state. Between 1997 and 2000, the researchers found and studied the remains of a 9,150-square-foot (850 square meters) palace complex complete with a plaza on the north side of the site. Radiocarbon dating and copious ash reveal that the palace burned down sometime around 60 B.C. or so.

Now, the archaeologists have unearthed an even larger complex of buildings on the east side of El Palenque. The walled-off area appears to be a temple complex, consisting of a main temple flanked by two smaller temple buildings. There are also at least two residences, probably for priests, as well as a number of fireboxes where offerings may have been made.

The whole complex measures almost 54,000 square feet (5,000 square meters), and the main temple alone has a 4,090-square-foot (380 square meters) footprint.

The main room of the main temple was scattered with artifacts, including shell, mica and alabaster ornaments, researchers report Monday (April 22) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The archaeologists also found ceramic vessels and whistles, as well as incense braziers. Obsidian blades and lances suggest that the priests engaged in ritual bloodletting and animal sacrifice, as did the remains of turkeys, doves and other animals in the temple hearth.

It was in this room that the human tooth and possible human limb bone were discovered, though researchers can't say for certain whether those bones were a sign of human sacrifice at the temple.

The main temple also contained a kitchen much larger than those found in households in El Palenque, suggesting that cooks whipped up meals for large groups in this spot. Behind the temple were several cell-like rooms, perhaps places for priests-in-training or low-ranking priests to sleep.

Also behind the temple, archaeologists turned up two buildings that appear to be priestly residences. These buildings were earthen-floored and thick-walled, with firepits inside that are characteristic of El Palenque homes. Unlike other homes in the city, though, these probably priestly digs revealed few utilitarian jars, griddles and grinding stones — but there were many serving plates. The artifacts suggest that priests didn't cook their own food, but were served meals in their quarters by temple servants or staff.

Like the palace, the temple complex has been burned and appears to have fallen out of use by the end of the first century B.C or the first century A.D., making it the oldest temple discovered yet in the Valley of Oaxaca. Among the remaining mysteries of the site is a hastily buried body found in one of the temple's fireboxes.

According to the researchers, the skeleton was found "in a cramped position that resulted in the skull resting at the firebox's southeast corner and a knee poking about its northwest corner."

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