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RSS FeedsHigh-quality jadeite tool discovered in underwater ancient salt works in Belize
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

 
 

20 may 2019 18:10:11

 
High-quality jadeite tool discovered in underwater ancient salt works in Belize
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)
 


Anthropologists discovered a tool made out of high-quality translucent jadeite with an intact rosewood handle at a site where the ancient Maya processed salt in Belize. The discovery of these high-quality materials-jadeite and rosewood-used as utilitarian tools, demonstrates that salt workers played an important role in the Classic Maya marketplace economy more than 1,000 years ago.


 
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