Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics and more. She covers several science topics from planet Earth to paleontology and archaeology to health and culture. Prior to freelancing, Jennifer held an Editor role at Time Inc.
A large, charred deposit containing royal human remains and ornaments found inside a Maya temple-pyramid was likely part of a"dramatic and public ritual" during a regime change.
"There was a large concentration of soot, carbon and ashes mixed with burnt bones and fragments of jadeite and marine shells that were so severely burned that they had cracked and exploded," lead study author Christina Halperin, a professor of anthropology at the University of Montreal, told Live Science."At first we didn't know what we were looking at."
"It didn't hit home that we were looking at ornaments until we found the diadem ," Halperin said."Only royal individuals would have worn something like that. We knew it had to be a royal tomb."
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