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In an Ancient Mexican Tomb, High Society

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« on: May 24, 2010, 03:37:20 am »

This school of thought, elaborated by Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus, anthropologists at the University of Michigan, holds that many contemporaneous cultures in ancient Mexico shared technologies and traditions arising not so much from one source, like the Olmec, as from independent responses to needs and beliefs or through a complex mix of social and economic interactions.

In these “parallel developments,” Dr. Redmond said, “similar kinds of architecture, ritual and elaborate tomb paraphernalia appeared in their particular cultures.”

She praised Dr. Bachand’s excavations at a site that has long been neglected, and was curious to find out the identity of the woman on the landing beyond the inner sanctum. If she was the ruler’s wife, as her lavish accouterments might indicate, why was she left to spend eternity outside her husband’s tomb?
A version of this article appeared in print on May 18, 2010, on page D3 of the New York edition.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/science/18tomb.html
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