El Salvador archaeologists lifted a burial sealed beneath 2,800-year-old volcanic ash; the person lay face down with a sea turtle-shaped vessel near one hand

There are no limits to a human's materialistic wants and emotional feelings. Attachment is the quickest development to happen and the slowest to recede. This is possibly why archaeologists in El Salvador found a 2,800-year-old burial of a person clutching a sea turtle vessel.The Mesoamerican burial found a face-down human skeleton that may be from a pre-Maya civilisation that practised human sacrifice. According to a translated statement from El Salvador's Ministry of Culture, the burial was found on July 2 in Antiguo Cuscatlán, a suburb of San Salvador, during excavation work directed by Carlos Flores Manzano, an archaeologist and doctoral student at Yale University.Although the skeleton has not been radiocarbon-dated yet, it was discovered underneath a layer of volcanic ash from an eruption of the Plan de la Laguna volcanic crater thought to date between 850 and 830 BC, during the Middle Preclassic period (roughly 1000 to 400 BC) in Mesoamerica.At that time...During this period, societies in southeastern Mesoamerica were becoming more sedentary and developing more complex cultures, archaeologists have found. But in addition to archaeological remains of crop cultivation and painte...