Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 squad of archaeologists has uncovered prove indicating that Mayan elites lived inward the pre-Hispanic urban kernel of Teotihuacán, located northeast of United Mexican U.S. City to a greater extent than than 1,000 kilometers from the middle of their civilization.
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| Credit: Mauricio Marat, INAH |
The National Institute of Anthropology too History (INAH) said inward a disputation that the remains of a Mayan-style mural too offering equally good equally fragments of Mayan ceramics too bones of thousands of sacrificed people were constitute inward the Plaza of the Columns, which is positioned betwixt the Pyramids of the Dominicus too Moon.
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| Credit: Plaza de las Columnas Project, INAH |
The discoveries confirm the being of a human relationship betwixt the Mayan too Teotihuacán civilizations, which were geographically separated yesteryear 1,300 kilometers, INAH said.
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| Credit: Mauricio Marat, INAH |
The projection to explore the site began 4 years agone nether the supervision of Saburo Sugiyama, Verónica Ortega Cabrera, Nawa Sugiyama too William Fash.
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“Epigraphic texts constitute inward [pre-Hispanic] metropolises similar Tikal, inward the Petén Department of Republic of Guatemala get upwards to the contact that both cultures maintained during the 4th century of our era.
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However, until today, niggling prove of the same had been constitute at the keen metropolis of the Mexican highlands [Teotihuacán], where novel discoveries betoken the residence of the Mayan elite inward the City of the Gods,” the archaeologists said.
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“Through the earthworks of wells inward add-on to the outline of a tunnel, it has been determined that the structures of the Plaza of the Columns were used for administrative too ceremonial activities too in all likelihood equally a residence non simply for the Teotihuacán elite but likewise the Mayan elite, at to the lowest degree until 350 A.D., when both [cultures] dominated the scene during the classic catamenia inward Mesoamerica.”
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Saburo Sugiyama, a Japanese academic at Arizona State University who has conducted plain function at Teotihuacán for the yesteryear 38 years, said the uncovering of the mural was a primal business office of the puzzle that allowed the archaeologists to hit their conclusion.
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“The remains of the mural inward the Plaza of the Columns permit us to affirm the presence of the Mayan elites inward Teotihuacán, too that their presence wasn’t periodic for ritual purposes but permanent.
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“It’s likely that the artists who painted the mural too the highest-ranking Mayan political officials lived inward a edifice to the due north of that site,” he said.
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| Credit: Mauricio Marat, INAH |
While the mural remains inward pieces, its features including Mayan glyphs too pocket-sized human figures along amongst its distinctive mode move out no doubts that it is the function of an creative individual or artists “who knew to perfection the iconography” of the Mayan culture, Sugiyama said.
Source: United Mexican U.S. News Daily [September 26, 2018] Sumber http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com
