Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8
Period Neolithic·Regional culture Americas-Mound·🇲🇽 Mexico Region 8, Mexico
About
About Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8
Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8 in Mexico Region 8, Mexico is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing. Recorded context — Period: Period Neolithic; Culture: Regional culture Americas-Mound; Field status: ongoing; Materials: mudbrick, plaster; Condition: ruins.
Why it mattersKey Regional culture Americas-Mound earthwork with stratified sequence and regional typology.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology and phasing
Theories
- 01Seasonal gathering
- 02Observatory
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 2800 BCE
- Period
- Period Neolithic
- Culture
- Regional culture Americas-Mound
- Purpose
- earthwork ritual/settlement purpose for Americas-Mound
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 1880
- Excavation
- Excavation ongoing
1890 excavation
Modern rediscovery and scientific excavation of Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8
c. 2800 BCE
Initial construction / first occupation at Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8
On the ground
Structures & features
11.3669° N · 3.4545° W · 1768 m · 3 mapped features
- Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8 — Principal Rampartrampartrampart at Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8 — subsidiary complex11.3676° N · 3.4553° W
- Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8 — Northern Ditchditchditch at Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8 — primary structure11.3654° N · 3.4562° W
- Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8 — Southern Entranceentranceentrance at Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8 — primary structure11.3652° N · 3.4534° W