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Olmec rubber balls preserved with anoxia technology
Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have developed a new anoxia technique to preserve ancient Olmec rubber balls found in southern Veracruz. The Olmec are the earliest known Mesoamerican civilisation (also referred to as the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica). The name ‘Olmec’ comes from the Nahuatl word: Ōlmēcatl or Ōlmēcah, meaning ‘rubber people’. The Olmec civilisation emerged in the present-day Mexican s…
Ancient Olmec rubber balls to be preserved with anoxia technology
Archaeologists in Mexico are adopting new strategies to preserve a unique set of artifacts linked to the oldest known ballgame found in Mesoamerica. Fourteen rubber balls discovered in 1988 at El Manatí in southern Veracruz are now the focus of a conservation effort by scientists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the […]
MEXICO CITY.— To slow down the process of deterioration of 14 Mesoamerican rubber balls, found in 1988 at the foot of Mount El Manati, south of Veracruz, specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the National Autonomous Universities of Mexico (UNAM) and Veracruzana propose the elaboration of an anoxia system (total absence of oxygen) for its preservation.
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