Archeologists have unearthed the lost remains of a Teotihuacan village, including human burials, in the heart of Mexico City. Ceramics found scattered around the site, which is located 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) northwest of the city's historical center, indicate the village dates from around A.D. 450 to 650 and may have housed a community of artisans and craftspeople.
Archeologists have unearthed the lost remains of a Teotihuacan village, including human burials, in the heart of Mexico City.
"The finding was surprising," said Juan Carlos Campos-Varela, an archaeologist at Mexico's National Institute of History and Anthropology Directorate of Archeological Salvage, who co-led the dig."It shows that 1,300 years ago, the islets inside Lake Texcoco, on which Mexico City was founded [after the lake was drained], already supported a permanent population that took advantage of the resources of the lake environment," he told Live Science in an email.
Gifted craftspeopleArcheologist Francisco González Rul discovered the first clues of this village's existence in the 1960s, during construction works in the Mexican capital. Based on ceramics he unearthed, González Rul suggested at the time that the inhabitants were self-reliant fishers and gatherers. The new excavations confirmed this.
Teotihuacan ceramics are categorized into phases, according to a 2016 study in the journal PLOS One. The newfound ceramics displayed features that correspond to the Xolalpan and Metepec phases in the 2016 study, which enabled the researchers to date the remains of the village and its inhabitants.
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