Reuters reported on the 29th (local time) that a farmer found a statue of a woman while plowing in a watermelon field in Veracruz province in eastern Mexico.
According to the Reuters news agency, farmer Cesar Cabrera, 52, was plowing a field to plant watermelons on the 1st, and when he saw a chunk of limestone coming out and carefully dug it out with others, it was an old woman the size of a human.
Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) analyzed that the sculpture found by the farmer is believed to be a relic of the ancient Wastekian culture in the Gulf of Mexico.
The INAH researchers who arrived here after receiving a call from Cabrera said that it was “Wasteka Woman Statue” and that “2021 begins with good news.”
INAH estimates that this statue was made around 1450-1521, the latter half of the post-high school period.
The statue was 2m in size, and the woman was wearing a feather headdress with her eyes wide open and her mouth open.
Experts estimated that this woman was a high class, such as a queen.
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A more than 500-year-old life-size statue, discovered on January 1 by locals, that represents an elite woman, possibly a queen, from the Huastec civilization which is famed for its naturalistic sculptures of women, is pictured in Alamo Temapache, in Veracruz state, Mexico January 8, 2021. Picture taken January 8, 2021. INAH – National Institute of Anthropology and History/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT
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