Mamut of Ecatepec, more than 10,000 years old, arrived at Mazatlan harbor

The Mamut de Ecatepec will spend this summer on the beach at where will be exhibited for three months, at the archaeological museum of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, its 132 pieces They were armed by the staff of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

After his stay in Durango, where he was visited by more than 20,000 people, the port of Mazatlan receives this piece from the center of Mexico to be admired by the public of Sinaloa, which is the first occasion in which a specimen of the Pleistocene fauna arrives at the state, complete and armed on a natural scale.

The skeleton of the animal extinguished He is four meters tall and 12,000 years old; It is composed of 132 pieces -120 original and 12 reconstituted – badembled and badembled for a permanent exhibition. The room It is accompanied by graphics that detail its characteristics and its existence in the prehistoric past.

The exposed mammothand found in April 1995 by residents of the ejido of San Cristóbal, Ecatepec, within a deposit that archaeologists have dated in 10,500 years. With the support of the community, he was saved, studied and kept by INAH specialists.

This species calls itself Mammuthus columbi, the largest animals on the planet, from a height greater than four meters and a weight of 10 tons; I had to eat about 200 kg of food every day and drink 250 liters of water; his gestation lasted 22 months and he probably lived about 80 years.

In the rescue only 80% of the mammoth skeleton was found, but from reproductions of the missing, the copy was badembled in its entirety and its badembly This is the main attraction of Ecatepec Community Center.

Archaeologist Gibran de la Torre, head of the INAH museum, said the archaeological museum of Mazatlan wanted to take advantage of the mammoth tour to spark a reflection on the importance of paleontological heritage in the state. The main objective is to raise awareness of the scientific value of these traces and the means to better know and know our past through their study.

De la Torre explains that at the end of the Pleistocene, the climatic conditions of the current sinalean territory allowed the development of large mammals, already extinct: mammoth, mastodon, gonfoterio, lazy, glyptodon, saber-toothed tiger and prehistoric horse.

The researcher Luis Alfonso Grave Tirado, for his part, indicates that the bones of these animals were registered by the INAH in the municipalities of Sinaloa de Leyva, Salvador Alvarado, Culiacán, Elota, San Ignacio, Concordia and Rosario. These discoveries are the result of chance and only some have been examined by specialists, explains the archaeologist of the INAH center of Sinaloa.

About the knowledge of the fossil record in Sinaloa is still rare, although in agreement with INAH's Paleontology Council, scientific publications report remains of mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) on this territory, which indicates that there was pasture towards the final Pleistocene.

Archaeologist Gibran de la Torre reports that the first report on palaeontological remains occurred in Mocorito, which was just created by the INAH center in the 1980s. where a defense of gonfoterio was found inside a pantheonbut the first systematic work was done with the discovery of four vertebrae and the 70% of the shell of a glyptodon located at Tayoltita, municipality of Elota, currently being studied at the Las Labradas Archeology Laboratory, by researcher Víctor Joel Santos Ramírez.

The head of the Mazatlan Archaeological Museum pointed out that many of the pieces reported today are on display in community museums in the cities where they were located. "Through this exhibition We intend to encourage the public to report it without fear to the INAH because it is not a matter of removing land, if it is at current of a finding.and yes, thanks to scientific badysis, to know better and to know better our past. The goal is that communities collaborate with INAH in the conservation of palaeontological properties ".