Waka'

Some interesting news from the excavations at Waka' (El Peru) in Northern Guatemala, some 40 miles west of Tikal.

Two young-adult female skeletons have been located in stacked formation in a tomb beneath a broad landing on a pyramid stairway. Neither had dental cavities indicating a diet rich in meat and fruit, as opposed to the corn with which the commoners lined their panzas. This is perhaps ironic as the experts on the scene are insisting that the pair were most likely sacrificed to the Maize god. One was pregnant.

The pottery around them dates their burial to around AD 350, the Early Classic period.

Last year a Queen's tomb was dicovered at the same site.