Ancient tomb discovered in Colombia
Ancient tomb discovered in Colombia
posted by Daniel Freeman
Sep 18, 2013
An indigenous hispanic tomb on Tuesday was discovered just outside of Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, during a tree planting ceremony.
During the ceremony, hosted by the South American transit company Metroplus, a tomb was accidentally uncovered in the rural outskirts of Medellin in the Envigado neighborhood.
Antioquian anthropologists that arrived on the scene asserted that this was a pre-Hispanic tomb and was likely an aboriginal house occupied between the 12th and 17th centuries.
“The interesting thing about this tomb is that the bedroom looks like an indigenous legend, in that they are like replicas of what should be the house,” said archeologist Gustavo Santos. ”We’ll do an analysis of the skeletal remains…and then a special anthropologist will analyze dental charts to tell us how many people were in the tomb.”
Research will begin shortly at the University of Antioquia.
http://colombiareports.co/ancient-tomb-discovered-colombia/
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