MEXICO CITY.- A scientific team discovered inside a pyramid
the tomb of a dignitary that may be the earliest in Mesoamerica. It was
located
in Chiapa de Corzo Archaeological Zone, in Chiapas; preliminary studies
reveal
an age of 2,700 years approximately. Osseous rests of 4 persons, 2 of
them
richly adorned with jade beads and pearls; ceramic utensils and other
objects
that were treasured in that time and place were discovered at the Zoque
affiliation site. According to researchers the academic importance of
the
finding lies in the possibility it gives of adjusting Maya and Olmeca
development stage chronologies as well as confirming the custom of using

pyramids as funerary precincts goes back in time to an earlier age that
thought.