Los Guachimontones is the largest Late Formative to Classic period (300 BCE to 450/500 CE) pre-Columbian archaeological site in Jalisco, Mexico. The site consist of 2 ceremonial areas, numerous house mounds, and terraced hillsides covering an area of approximately 19 hectares [1080×2080]

My husband’s family lives in a small village not too far away, and one day his great uncle just dumped a bag of pre-columbian beads (most of a whole necklace) small carved figures (a coyote or dog and I think a jaguar) and various potshards he’s turned up while tilling the fields. And it was like no big deal to him, because everyone’s forever turning up stuff like that. My attempt to be very chill and cool about it was not even a little successful.