1,000 Ancient Tombs, Unique Remains Found in Colombia

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5-9-2008 6:15 PM

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Builders clearing land for a housing project in <A href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_colombia.html">Colombia</A> have uncovered an ancient burial site containing nearly a thousand tombs linked to two little-known civilizations. (<A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/photogalleries/Colombia-photos/index.html">See photos.</A>)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080509-colombia-tombs.html">
The site covers some 12 acres (5 hectares) in the impoverished Usme district in southeast <A href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/cities/city_bogota.html">Bogotá</A> (<A href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/maps/map_city_bogota.html">see map</A>) and includes one set of remains that some researchers believe could be a victim of human sacrifice.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/photogalleries/Colombia-photos/index.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/photogalleries/Colombia-photos/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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The possible victim is a young woman who seems to have been buried alive, said Ana Maria Groot, one of the lead anthropologists from the National University of Colombia working at the site.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080509-colombia-tombs.html">
"Her mouth is open as if in terror, and her hands seem contracted as if she had tried grabbing hold of something," Groot said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080509-colombia-tombs.html">
Another tomb contains the remains of a man with a curved tibia, or shinbone, possible evidence that the man was a shaman, she added.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B6650676-E057-4011-9C86-CF7331B7FD80/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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