Researchers have unearthed the elaborately modify remains of a 1,600 - year - old woman close to the famous ruins ofTeotihuacannear Mexico City . allot to astatement(in Spanish ) put out by the National Institute of Anthropology and story , several of the woman ’s teeth appear to have been grace or replaced with prosthetics made of attractive mineral like iron pyrite – also known as fool ’s gold – and serpentine .
Thought to have been buried at some spot between 350 and 400 CE , the upper - class woman ’s skull also seems to have been deliberately elongate , by being compact under extreme pressure level . Interestingly , these types of modification are not trust to have been practice in the central Mexican altiplano , where Teotihuacan is settle , but are instead more unremarkably associated with theMaya - master region of southerly Mexico and Central America .
see in an area of Teotihuacan called Tlailotlacan , which think of “ far - aside masses ” , the woman may well have been an immigrant from the south , and , concord to anthropologist Jorge Archer Velasco , was around 35 to 40 year quondam at the time of her destruction .
Having to begin with unearth the body in 2014 , Velasco and his colleagues are now examining the many enthralling and surprising features of these unbelievable remains – such as the circular fool’s gold Harlan Fiske Stone encrusted into her two upper front tooth , as well as the serpentine implant that have been inserted in lieu of the lower incisor .
According to Velasco , the insertion of fool ’s gold into the front teeth “ would have been attain by drill into the enamel , a technique that has been reported in the Maya part around Peten and Belize . ”
Regarding the lower incisor implant , he explains that “ we are currently conduct an analysis into whether this piece was fixed using some type of cement or a fiber that connected it to the jawbone . ”
Rising to protuberance in the first century CE , Teotihuacanwas one of the orotund and most bustling cities of pre - Columbian America , yet was mysteriously empty in the seventh century . Home to the legendary Pyramids of the Sun and Moon , the city was later re - discovered by the Aztecs and used as a place of worship , with many human sacrifices being perform here under the rule of Moctezuma in the sixteenth hundred .
mental image : The skull appears to have been compact so as to make it longer , and also contains a routine of dental alteration . Instituto Nacional de Antropología einsteinium Historia
