{"id":223,"date":"2012-12-29T23:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T23:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeology.sa\/?p=223"},"modified":"2012-12-29T23:02:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T23:02:50","slug":"4000-year-old-spearheads-found-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"4,000-Year-Old Spearheads Found in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"archaeology\" src=\"http:\/\/archaeologic.net\/\/uploads\/img_i1494_spearhead%20latino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Researchers discovered 4,000-year-old spearheads and other artifacts at a site in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, Mexico&#8217;s National Institute of Anthropology and History said.<br \/>\nThe find &#8220;will change the chronologies of the antiquity of human settlement in the northwest of the country,&#8221; archaeologist Joel Santos Ramirez said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The items reflect a rudimentary technology also seen in artifacts from the U.S. Southwest, from what is now the central Mexican state of Puebla and in some desert regions of northern Mexico.<br \/>\nArchaeologists found the spearheads at a site they dubbed La Flor del Oceano, 50 kilometers north of the Pacific resort city of Mazatlan and near a set of rock engravings known as Las Labradas.<br \/>\nThe spearheads turned up in the course of search for where the makers of the rock engravings lived, said Santos, the director of the Las Labradas project.<br \/>\nAlong with the spear-points, researchers discovered knives and tool fragments, he said.<br \/>\nThe distribution of the artifacts would indicate the presence of temporary encampments and a workshop, Santos said, while acknowledging that the team still doesn&#8217;t know if the items belonged to the creators of Las Labradas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Latino.<\/p>\n<p>Published December 27, 2012 &#8211; EFE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers discovered 4,000-year-old spearheads and other artifacts at a site in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, Mexico&#8217;s National Institute of Anthropology and History said. The find &#8220;will change the chronologies of the antiquity of human settlement in the northwest of the country,&#8221; archaeologist Joel Santos Ramirez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}