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2,400-year-old puppets with 'dramatic facial expression' discovered atop pyramid in El Salvador

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2,400-year-old puppets with 'dramatic facial expression' discovered atop pyramid in El Salvador

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Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 days ago

These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the rest of Central American culture than previously thought.

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If you put them in a big dish, they’ll swell up to life size, just like the dinosaurs.

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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