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Image credit: John Hodgson; Drawing: Kisslan Chan and John Clark, New World Archaeological Foundation
A 3,000-year-old Mesoamerican sculpture, discovered in 2009 in southern Mexico along the Pacific coast, looks ready to march into the history books. But the only problem is archaeologists are unaware of its identity – whether he was a corn god, a tribal chief or a sacred priest.
“It’s beautiful and was obviously very important. But we will probably never know who he was or what the sculpture means in its entirety,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison archaeologist John Hodgson.
He has described about the new monument discovered from Ojo de Agua site, Chiapas, in the cover article of the December issue of Mexicon.
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