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Archaeologists Find Maya Warrior Head Sculpture in Mexico

Archaeological rescue work ahead of the Maya Train construction has turned up another remarkable find in Chichén Itzá – a well-preserved sculpture of a Maya warrior head in a helmet shaped like a feathered serpent with open jaws.

The head was discovered on Tuesday in Maudslay’s Temple 6, in the Casa Colorada complex of Chichén Itzá, in Yucatán, as part of the Program for the Improvement of Archaeological Zones (Promeza).

The 33 centimeter-high sculpture appears to date from the earliest period of habitation of Chichén Itzá.

“It was customary to represent warriors with a headdress, with a kind of helmet,” he said. “In this case it is a snake figure from which the face of this character emerges, and a feathered headdress, so it is probably alluding to Kukulcán, the feathered serpent of the Maya.”

Just last week, INAH archaeologists discovered a circular temple dedicated to Kukulcán at the El Tigre site in Campeche, also as part of Promeza works associated with the Maya Train construction.

Prieto Hernández used his presentation at the morning press conference to give updates on other Promeza projects, including conservation work at the Xelhá site on the coast of Quintana Roo.

The site is around 1,300 years old, and its name means “Entrance to the Water” in the Mayan language. It was the principal port of the Cobá kingdom in the years 250-600 A.D., but fell into rapid decline after diseases introduced by the Spanish conquest all but wiped out the native inhabitants.

Prieto Hernández insisted that Promeza projects are helping to give today’s Maya communities new contact with their past – although the Maya Train has also been controversial among Indigenous communities for its impact on the natural environment and their way of life.

As of Nov. 9, Prieto Hernández said that archaeological salvage work on the seven sections of the Maya Train had recovered 57,146 building structures, 1,925 movable artifacts, 660 human burials and 2,252 natural features associated with human settlements.

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Maya Statue Head,

On Tuesday, November 7, archaeologists in the eastern Yucatán Peninsula unearthed a well-preserved Maya warrior statue head adorned with a serpentine headdress amidst construction for the Maya Train.

Measuring approximately 13 inches tall and 11 inches wide, the artifact was found during the excavation of a wall in Maudslay’s Temple 6, a site named after the British archaeologist Alfred Maudslay within the Casa Colorada Complex in the Maya city of Chichén Itzá. The complex is one of four buildings surrounding the main plaza of the ancient site.

The object may date back to the earliest years of Chichén Itzá, founded around 455 CE. 

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Identifier: annualreportofbu219smit Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Year: 1895 (1890s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off. Contributing Library: Boston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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