The woman, between 35 and 40 years old when she died, was found near Mexico`s ancient ruins of Teotihuacan buried with 19 jars that served as offerings, the National Anthropology and History Institute said. Her head was elongated by being compressed in a "very extreme" way. This technique was commonly used in the southern part of Mesoamerica, but not in the central region where she was found, the institute said in a statement.
Another peculiar feature of the skeleton, dubbed "The Woman of Tlailotlacan" after the neighborhood where it was found, also shows the woman was a "foreigner" in those region. It is the two round pyrite stones encrusted in her top front teeth, a technique used in Mayan regions in southern Mexico and Central America, and a prosthetic lower tooth made of a green stone known as serpentine.
1,600-Year-Old ‘Posh’ skeleton with stone-encrusted teeth found in Mexico
09 July 2016
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Archeologists have discovered the remains of an upper-class woman who had teeth decorated with mineral stones and had undergone artificial cranial deformation, AzVision.az reports citing Sputniknews.com.
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