INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
contained an offering, but no bones)
Each burial required breaking the stone floor, placing the tiny remains underneath, and then filling in the hole with crushed limestone
similar courtyards in faraway Teotihuacan.In other words, the people who lived in this compound and used this courtyard and painted altar
were probably from Teotihuacan, or raised in a Teotihuacan enclave in the southern sector of Tikal
unearthed Teotihuacan-style incense burners made from local materials.
This rendering shows what the altar might have looked like in
its heyday.
Credit:
Heather Hurst
Sometime between 550 CE and 654 CE,
based on radiocarbon dating, the foreign enclave in Tikal closed up shop
That meant burning the area around the altar, but it also meant that people buried the altar, the courtyard, the compound, and most of
whole thing look like a natural hill
co-author of the recent study, said in a statement
They treated it almost like a memorial or a radioactive zone
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.3 (About DOIs).
