Pre-Hispanic Cemetery in Sonora

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A pre-Hispanic cemetery, located 300 meters from the village of Onavas, south of Sonora, and about a thousand years old, was discovered by archaeologists, which gives evidence of the ancient practices of cultural groups entity.

This is a site where the remains of 25 individuals, 13 of whom have intentional skull deformation and five dental mutilation, in a statement to the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

The archaeologist Cristina Garcia Moreno, head of the research project conducted by Arizona State University (USA), under the approval of the INAH Archaeology Council, said that this discovery realizes unregistered customs in ancient cultural groups in the state .

This is demonstrated in cranial deformation (frontal occipital) in the 13 individuals and modification by the wear of the side of the pieces to give them a "V" said Garcia Moreno.

"The area meets unique finding because mixed expressions of groups of northern Mexico, as the use of ornaments made from sea shells Sea of ​​Cortes, with Western traditions never before found in Sonoran territory. This discovery expands the limit of influence of Mesoamerican peoples farther north than was recorded archeology, "he said.

In Sonora, he said, he had not discovered a graveyard as such, the closest is in the archaeological site of La Playa, where they have recovered more than 400 burials, but stressed that in that place the skeletons were buried in and out of houses , but in this case it is a specific area for burying dead.

"The closest cultural groups who developed these traditions are in northern Sinaloa and the National Wetlands area (southern Sinaloa and northern Nayarit), which incorporated some of their culture and customs of Western Mesoamerica," the researcher.

Of the skeletal remains of 25 individuals recovered, 17 are minors-of between five months and 16 years and eight are adults, only one is attributed to the female sex. The datings performed on human remains Epiclassic match the Mesoamerican period (900-1200 AD).

According to historical sources, he said, the space must have belonged to the old Pima Indians, cultural group in the region, whose descendants moved to the state line between Sonora and Chihuahua.

"It could be part of a settlement located within the area of ​​traffic were the peoples of the west coast of the U.S. southwest trade in turquoise," and then move populations, the Pimas adopted new traditions from Mesoamerica " he added.

The archaeologist said that these findings give rise to other investigations in the southeastern part of Sonora, poorly studied, "the North, the desert, the Northeast and the coast are the most researched, from these findings it is known that the southeast is different from what was known, this side is completely new. "

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