Mauricio Chávez
A 1,200-year-old archaeological site with bones and pottery vessels was found west of the Nicaraguan capital, where a pre-Columbian cemetery existed, the site’s researchers said on Tuesday.
The site was found in the area where the new National Baseball Stadium stands and contains ruins of burials, ceramic funerary urns, as well as human remains, according to experts quoted by state television channel 6.
A skeleton shows the skull with some dentures, although the remains corresponding to hands and feet are no longer there.
The materials found by workers who excavated for the installation of the stadium’s electric lighting station,
correspond to a funerary context 800 to 350 years after Christ,”
explained the director of Archeology of the Nicaraguan Institute of Culture (INC) Ivonne Miranda.
Objects dating from the same period have also been found in the cities of Masaya and Granada (southeast) and Rivas (south).
The archaeological find also
allows us to know the behavior of our pre-Hispanic societies,”
said Miranda.
The study is carried out by the INC together with the Archaeological Center of Documentation of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua and the Mayor’s Office of Managua.
The archaeological pieces will be transferred to the National Palace of Culture for laboratory analysis, according to Miranda.
The lands where this cemetery was found were uninhabited for many years. The University of Engineering and a military urbanization built in the 1990s are nearby the site.