Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 days ago

'Trash' found deep inside a Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture

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'Trash' found deep inside a Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture

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Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 days ago

When two spelunkers investigated what they thought was trash in a cave in Mexico, they discovered more than a dozen artifacts dating back centuries.

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I wonder what those fertility rituals entailed…

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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