SHAFT tombs................man oh man..........


The Indian lore overlay to all this is huge..............counting the entire western hemisphere.......

Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition

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Reconstruction of excavated shaft tomb exhibited at theMuseo Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, México.

The Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition or shaft tomb culture refers to a set of interlocked cultural traits found in the western Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to a lesser extent, Colima to its south, roughly dating to the period between 300 BCE and 400 CE, although there is not wide agreement on this end-date. Nearly all of the artifacts associated with this shaft tomb tradition have been discovered by looters and are without provenance, making dating problematic.^[1] The first major undisturbed shaft tomb associated with the tradition was not discovered until 1993, at Huitzilapa, Jalisco.^[2]