Mexican archaeologists find a 1,500 year old shaft tomb in the state of Colima

[Judi Lynn]

Mexican archaeologists find a 1,500 year old shaft tomb in the state of Colima
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

MEXICO CITY.- A shaman’s sculpture (represented with a long face and a weapon at hand), is the guardian of a shaft tomb discovered in the state of Colima by investigators of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), who recently became the first to see its interior after it had been closed for more than 1,500 years.

With the fumaroles of the Fire Volcano as a background and underneath a plot of land in the municipality of Villa de Alvarez, the specialists from INAH are detailing the registry of this funerary space which was fortunately found intact, since shaft tombs are usually raided by looters because of the objects beauty within these, explained archaeologist Marco Zavaleta Lucido.

The archaeologist added that the salvage in Villa de Alvarez, near a place with recently recovered adult burials in cists, where he recently lifted three flat stones that sealed the vertical entry to the shaft tomb.

The underground space devastated by tepetate (a solid layer of volcanic rock) is distinct and earlier than the cist burials, dating between 0 and 500 AD, in the temporary margins of the Comala phase.

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1. Interesting find.

But atrocious translation. Hard to follow.