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For Y'all Data - 2,500-Year-Old Olmec Monuments Discovered Inwards Guatemala


Two large carved fragments of pumice stone, designated monuments '253A' too '253B', dating to the Middle Preclassic Period (800-350 BC) of the Olmec era, accept been flora inward the Tak'alik Ab'aj archaeological park, said the Ministry of Culture too Sports (MCD) inward a statement.

Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Credit: Johan Ordonez/AFP
The showtime monument flora is an Olmec caput alongside symbols of ability too corresponds to an authorization figure called "Grandfather" (avô), said archeologist Christa Schieber, i of the specialists who directs the excavations inward the municipality of El Asintal, 125 km southwest of Guatemala.

The monument is placed "on its head" too signifies "the pregnant of the descent from the heavens of the ancestor,", explained Schieber.

The minute slice is "exquisitely" carved alongside ritual symbols of the basis persuasion of the pre-Hispanic cultures of Mesoamerica, including the K'an cross, a distinctive predecessor of the sign for Venus.

Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Two large carved fragments of pumice rock For You Information - 2,500-year-old Olmec monuments discovered inward Guatemala
Credit: Johan Ordonez/AFP
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 monumental stele weighing unopen to 5 tons was too flora at the site, identified every bit Stele 86.

The government minister of culture, José Luis Chea, added that the pieces flora were business office of other "monumental" structures which were mutilated "to score the destination of the middle Pre-Classic period, corresponding to the Olmec business too dedicated to the start of a novel cycle, according to the Mayan era."

"This regain strengthens the proposal raised yesteryear the archaeologists of the site, who dot that inward Tak'alik Ab'aj in that location is a transition betwixt the 2 cultures", explained the minister.

Source: AFP [July 20, 2018]


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