Several years have passed since, in that distant 1994, the archaeologist Jim Brady, climbing along a wild path, found himself in the Rio Talgua Cave, but the story of its discovery still continues to fascinate.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himSeveral years have passed since, in that distant 1994, the archaeologist Jim Bradyclimbing up a wild path he found himself in the Rio Talgua cave, but the story of its discovery still continues to fascinate.
An eerie place that explorers had begun to call the Grotta del Glowing Skulls in Honduras because, to get there, it was necessary to cross a river and a rocky slope.
During one of the searches inside, Brady did one archaeological discovery: hidden between the walls of the cave was a small slit of light that led directly into a sort of chamber. What the archaeologist and other collaborators saw was one surprising scene: all the walls were covered in calcium carbonate and glistened like marbled ice. All around the calcite had created stalactites like organ pipes.
In every crack, pre-Columbian skulls and human bones crystallized and ceramic vessels. A discovery greeted with enthusiasm by the George Washington University archaeologist who, from that moment on, formed a real work team to answer the many questions about the presence of human remains.
Many radiocarbon investigations and tests, funded by a businessman have been done to give an identity and one temporal collocation to ashes and bone fragments.
Relationship with i Maya? Brady for now only speculates that the burial may date back either to 500 AD or even as early as 300 BC.
It's frustrating to have all of this material and not being able to relate it to time, explains Dr. Brady.
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What is known is that the area of central and northeastern Honduras was densely populated by the Maya. There Talgua cave it is approximately four miles northeast of Catacamas, near the edge of the Mosquitia Rain Forest and 100 miles northeast of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
On the remains and the burial the mystery remains but what is basically extraordinary is the discovery of an ossuary in an area that has very little archeology.
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