Ancient Mesoamerica News Updates 2011, No. 9: Tula, Hidalgo - Selection of Recently Discovered Objects Now on Exhibit at the Museum
Tula Site Discovered in 2006 and 2009, Some 500 objects discovered at Various Archaeological sites in the Mexican state of Hidalgo Have Been restored and a selection of These objects is now on exhibit at the museum of the Archaeological Site of Tula, as Reported by the WAS National Institute of Anthropology and History on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. The report INAH Also Provides details on the Recent Excavations of child Burials. Among the objects restored and now on exhibit at the museum site Tula is the statuette of Xipe Totec discovered in December 2009 and Report upon in Ancient Mesoamerica News Updates 2010, No. 1 (edited by amanu): Return
Tula archaeological restored - Proceeds from diverse findings seen in various places in Hidalgo, in about five years they have collected more than 500 archaeological pieces, corresponding to the boom phase of the Toltec culture, this series of articles highlights the Xipe Totec sculpture, that after a careful restoration process performed by specialists National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), returns to the archaeological zone of Tula to be exhibited to the public from Wednesday 23.
This piece, whose name means "Our Lord the Flayed" in Nahuatl, was found in December 2009 in an area particularly during the implementation of drainage works, represents the first discovered in the area that occupied the ancient city of Tula . It is estimated that for the Tollan period (900-1150 AD).
The sculpture, along with 19 found in 2006, were restored in the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museology (ENCRyM) INAH in Mexico City, where for over a year were subjected to a treatment for preservation, after completing this work, were sent to Tula to be shown for the first time in an exhibition entitled Beyond the confines of Tula Grande, mounted on the Board of Guidance from the archaeological zone.
The Xipe Totec is a ceramic bust of Mexican deity associated with agriculture, fertility and life-death cycle, measures 85 cm high and represents an individual standing in sandals and loincloth, through technical pastillaje artisans gave the appearance to be skinned. During its restoration, INAH experts restored him an arm that was broken off and treated fractures on his face.
addition of this sculpture, restorers involved 19 other pre-Hispanic pieces, among which two walls of adobe polychrome painted blue, yellow, red and black pottery with images of monkeys, a necklace and a bracelet of shell and greenstone and figurines still have pigments, which shall remain on display at the site until 18 March.
In almost five years in Hidalgo were found just over 500 archaeological pieces, of which 450 are from scans made in 2006 on the distributor road to Tula, and other 70 correspond to those found with the Xipe Totec in particular tract, where they also discovered 26 human burials (four adults and other children) who were accompanied by offerings. All the remains belong to the Tollan phase (900-1150 AD).
The more than fifty pre-Hispanic objects have been registered and classified by the INAH, and are in receipt of the archaeological zone of Tula, is currently preparing a script for display in a larger sample that includes the presentation of about 200 objects.
report new Mexica infant burials - In findings reported in 2006 and 2009, joins the five infant burials Mexican culture for the Late Post Classic period (1350 - 1521 AD) and remains of walls and floors of what was a residential unit Toltec Tollan phase (900-1150 AD) found in late January in a particular site located 1.5 km from the archaeological zone of Tula, during construction work on a fence.
The recovery of the burials and offerings, is the result of the cooperation agreements between INAH and the city of Tula, to protect the urban pre-Hispanic monuments that still exist around the archaeological site.
The archaeologist Manuel Gamboa Cabezas, responsible de las labores de salvamento arqueológico en el kilómetro 10 de la carretera Tepetitlán-Tula, explicó que los restos humanos corresponden a tres niños y dos perinatales de filiación mexica, asociados a ofrendas de cerámica, integradas por ollas, jarras y cuencos monocromos naranjas y en negro sobre naranja.
El arqueólogo explicó que los entierros se descubrieron sobre los pisos de viviendas que ocuparon los toltecas, y que posteriormente fueron reocupadas por los mexicas. Los infantes fueron colocados en fosas hechas en los núcleos de las plataformas. “Esto es indicador de que con el paso del tiempo el lugar fue abandonado por los toltecas y en el Posclásico Tardío fue reocupado por grupos de filiación Mexican funeral as a deposit.
"We assume that the residential unit was only re-used by the Aztecs as a burial place because there are no other contemporary element to them, as might be overlapping architectural floors or walls."
on the architectural remains found, the archaeologist Gamboa referred to under a residential unit Toltec observed in the floor of the courtyard in good condition and remains of small platforms. The construction phase is Tollan, considered the heyday and expansion of the archaeological city of Tula.
specified that such discoveries the presence of post-Toltec groups is not new to the region of Tula, but momentous in history, as it confirms the significance of the region and the cult of Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs, who considered themselves heirs Toltecs.
The materials found were lifted from the site for study in the laboratories of INAH, while the remains of pre-Hispanic buildings will be preserved as an archaeological reserve for future study. (Source INAH)
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