Incredible: three masons enjoyed an Inca civilization in Jujuy

three masons They got the big surprise of their lives when, while they were carrying out excavation inside a house in the city of Humahuaca, Jujuy, found a lot of Bone remainsburied under different methodologies, and pieces of prehispanic pottery who belonged to one ancient Inca civilization.

According to the newspaper Humahuaca Todaythe event took place while the workers German Alexis Soto, Kevin Soto and Ricardo David Rios Soto, They were working inside the aldo cruz family home which is located in the northern sector of the Santa Bárbara neighborhood of the city of Humahuaca,

Among the items found were fossil remains of two adults and one child that, according to the information archaeologists from the University of Buenos Aires that they were a charge of the investigation, belonged to a ancient Inca civilization I live in that region of Argentina between 1,300 to 1,500 years after Christ.

A large quantity and variety of ceramic shards black on red, typical of the Humahuacaa ceramic yavi with white inclusions, which is not from the area, and a ceramic with mika that was next to the adult individual.

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“Apparently, everything found is from the same moment or perhaps between 40 and 50 years apart.. He state of conservation is not the bestthe pots are cracked and very fragile,” explained the anthropologist Gustavo Ontiveros, member of the omaguacas or humahuacas cultures,

“This finding has a enormous archaeological value. Perhaps there were previous cultures, but it is known that The omaguaca culture continued to exist despite the Incas, were. That identity is still preserved today in the people, their culture”, concluded the specialist.

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All the materials found by the three lucky bricklayers from Jujuy will be taken to the Tilcara Archaeological Museumwhere will they be they studied with the aim of being able to reliably establish its seniority in order to subsequently be exhibited to the public.

By Robert Collins

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