Mexico discovered ivory 10,000 years before BC

The Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said a group of archaeological experts discovered a mammoth tusk nearly 3 meters long, over 10,000 years BC, buried with many ceramic items in the district. Mepetec, Mexico state.

The reporter in Mexico, who led the initial assessment by the expert team, said that the ivory and some of the recently excavated items were the deities that Olmeca indigenous peoples conducted during 1,000 to 400 BC.

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However, the location of this artifact is located in a high land compared to the valley, not the habitat of mammoths.

Therefore, archaeologists believe that indigenous people brought mammoth tusks from the lowlands in the old valley that today is the Mexico metropolitan area to do ritual before conducting a major work. some great old tradition.

Speaking in front of the press in Mexico City on July 15, Paz Granados, an archaeologist, confirmed that the excavated items are a proof that the Olmenca culture has been exchanged and exposed in the past. Another culture and mammoth ivory is an item used for this process.

Olmec is Mexico's first major civilization. Olmeca people live in lowland tropics in South Mexico, in today's territory areas belonging to the states of Veracrus and Tabasco.

Olmec culture has reached a high level of development in the entire region that we now call Central America.

This civilization establishes many principles of philosophy and infrastructure for later cultures in Central America.