Hi,
I am a PhD student in Mesoamerican archeaology, and am working with a
friend of mine on a term project on the Caracol at Chichen Izta in
Yucatan, Mexico. The 1935 report from the original excavations at the
Caracol state in passing that the archaeologists found a chache
underneath the floor containing the bones of 41 shrews (Cryptotis
mayensis), identified by Glover M. Allen at the Museum of Comparative
Zoology at Harvard University. The two of us are wondering if any of
you know of other, similar caches, or have any ideas on why shrews?
Any thoughts you have on this would be most welcome. The two of us
have been puzzling over this for months!
Thanks very much!
Elizabeth Terese Newman
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
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