More than 15 years after its discovery, Belize's Midnight Terror Cave is still leaving clues about more than 100 people who were sacrificed to the Maya rain god there more than a millennium ago.
, president and CEO of the PaleoResearch Institute in Golden, Colorado. Scott Cummings found that the samples contained primarily cotton fibers and that several of those were dyed bright blue.
These blue fibers were also found in an agave-based alcoholic beverage at burials at Teotihuacan, an archaeological site in what is now Mexico. "Many researchers think that calculus only reflects diet, but this study is a great example of how much more information can be learned.", an environmental archaeologist at the University of Pittsburgh who was not involved in the study, told Live Science by email that she is"skeptical" that the blue fibers came from gags.
Chan and her team agree that their study, while providing the first evidence of blue fibers in dental calculus of Maya individuals, has some limitations.
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