The settlement Flowers was founded on the promontory 30 meters bordering Cove Lagoon The Chairel, located 4 kilometers northwest of the center of the city of Tampico. The site was explored from the early twentieth century, but It was between 1941 and 1942 when archaeologists Gordon Ekholm and Wilfredo Du Solier performed the first scientific excavations.However, much of the site had already been destroyed by the construction of the Eagle and Flowers colonies during the oil boom of Tampico (1920-1950) was only a mound in a small batch of municipal property used as a dump, which He accelerated the deterioration of the remains. In 1991 and 1997 several works of liberation, consolidation and restoration is performed by the INAH in collaboration with the city of Tampico and the need to protect and open the site to the public infrastructure was installed. The ceramic Las Flores represents a sharp change stylistic respect of the ancient tradition of the Gulf of Mexico, linked to the Toltec and Mayan ceramics.It has style, form and decoration reminiscent of pots of central Mexico, related to the Toltec ceramics and Mazapa Coyotlatelco phases (700-1000 AD.). An important finding is a sculpture of the goddess of fertility (Teem) topless with a large headdress on his head and hands on his belly, representative of the Huasteca tradition. Suggesting a close link this town with the center or either table, the coexistence of two groups of ethnically distinct population in the same core.Site Description The site originally had over 20 mounds were built between the years 1000 and 1250 AD (period Panuco v) with a possible brief reoccupation between 1250 and 1500 AD (period Panuco vi). The mound preserved and known as the Pyramid of Las Flores is circular, truncated cone-shaped, about 6 meters high with 36 meter base. It was built with rammed earth and lime and sand, without using stone. Inside there is evidence of 26 floors of mortar (a mixture of lime and sand) and five substructures. Vestiges eleven steps are also identified. Stairway West resembles a ramp flanked by ramps protruding from the basement massif, whose summit was crowned by a circular temple floor and conical roof, built with wood and grass.

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