Mexican experts find seeds, cloth around mummified child

A CAT scan of a rolled-up straw mat found in a northern Mexico cave has revealed the mummified remains of a 1 ½ year-old boy.

Credit: Mauricio Marat/INAH

The country’s National Institute of Anthropology and History says that researchers trying to determine the age of the funeral bundle.

Credit: Mauricio Marat/INAH

But the institute said Sunday that organic materials in the cave in Tamaulipas state have been dated between 1,600 B.C. and 1,200 A.D.

Credit: Mauricio Marat/INAH

The child’s body bore a piece of cloth, and bone and shell ornaments. But perhaps just as interesting was a woven basket left near the body, apparently as an offering.

Credit: Mauricio Marat/INAH

It contained 756 acorns and 52 ears of primitive corn, as well as squash stems.

The find may shed more light on the transition to sedentary agricultural communities in the region.

Source: The Associated Press [July 30, 2018]

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