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Within the past 10 years, archaeological discoveries in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas have opened up a vast philosophical and zoological quest to understand what happened 4000–5000 years ago across northern Mexico and how several tribes, heretofore unknown to history, came upon the scene and then vanished with no apparent intermixing with any groups outside their own. Their artistic legacy invites deep perplexity mirroring the condition of all human existence and the biological sciences which seek to define that existence within the confines of evolutionary theories.
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Megan Garber, Discovered: a cave art complex that could be the Lascaux of Mexico – the paintings feature humans and lizards and centipedes, and could be 8000 years old, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/discovered-a-cave-art-complex-that-could-be-the-lascaux-of-mexico/276298/. Accessed 15 Oct 2016; see also George Dvorsky, Thousands of cave paintings have been discovered in Mexico, http://io9.gizmodo.com/thousands-of-cave-paintings-have-been-discovered-in-mex-509994795/ Accessed 15 Oct 2016; See also, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-22632301/. Accessed 15 Oct 2016
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See Dr. Castilla’s 45-page as yet unpublished essay, “Las manifestaciones gráfico-rupestres de Tamaulipas” (2014), which we translated from Spanish and comprises the fullest contextualization for these cave art sites, to date, along with a major, previously completed thesis by Dr. Castilla’s colleague and friend, INAH researcher Martha García Sánchez, “La presencia del arte rupestre en Burgos, Tamaulipas,” Tesis de licenciatura, Unidad Académica de Antropología, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, 2012; and the largely pictographic brief by Jorge Luis Berdeja, “Una galería de pintura rupestre en la Sierra de San Carlos Arqueólogos del INAH documentaron las obras realizadas, al menos, por cinco grupos de cazadores-recolectores nómadas” http://www.inah.gob.mx/images/boletines/reportajes/20130919_pinturarupestre/rupestre.pdf. Accessed 15 Oct 2016
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Serrano, Carlos Mireya Montiel, Gustavo A. Ramirez Castilla (2008) Osteological analysis of a funeral in northern Tamaulipas Late Archaic (4500 AP). International Symposium of Physical Anthropology Juan Comas, pp 61–62. See Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs Notice 145A2100DD/A0T500000.000000/AAK3000000: Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. Federal Register, January 2015 (PDF). Federal Register. 80. Government Publishing Office. January 14, 2015. pp 1942–1948. OCLC 1768512. See also Harry Jones J, Pictographs of a dramatic past. Los Angeles Times, Dec 25, 2015, p B3
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For extensive bibliographical materials on the mummies of Tamaulipas and surrounding regions, see citations in Castilla (2014) including Josefina Mansilla Lory and Ilan Leboreiro Santiago Reyna, “2009 Report on the Mummies of Mexico Project DAF/INAH, on the advice, analysis and study of the mummy found in the Hidden Canyon, municipality of Llera, Tamaulipas, in collaboration with INAH, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Center Technical file Tamaulipas INAH Center; MacNeish, Richard S., Excavation in the 1998 Preliminary Ocampo Region of Tamaulipas, Mexico, Archives of the Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research (AFAR), Peabody Museum. Andover, MA. (Unpublished); Ramirez Castilla, Gustavo A. (2014) Funeral Traditions, Premature Burials and Mummification: Advances in the Mummies of Tamaulipas Bioarchaeological Project. Yearbook of Mummy Studies, vol 2: pp 133–142
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Op. cit., Castilla 2014
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Ibid., Castilla 2014
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Ibid., Castilla 2014
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Chiapas, Yucatan, Tabasco, Oaxaca, and Puebla (1910), In: The ruins of Mexico, vol 1. H. E. Shrimpton, London
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Ibid., vol 1, H. E. Shrimpton, London, pp v–vi
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Tobias, M.C., Morrison, J.G. (2018). The Lost Tribes of Tamaulipas. In: The Theoretical Individual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71443-1_2
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