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Ancient high‐status burial of a woman at Tlailotlacan, a neighborhood in the city of Teotihuacan

“…She had an intentional cephalic modification (Figure 4), with frontal‐occipital compression which is not common among the Teotihuacan population (Archer, Jorge and Ortega 2018). It was possible to identify that the individual had intentional dental modification in the upper central incisors, type G‐3 according to the Romero (1958) classification. Another interesting feature is the existence of inlay on the front face using circular pyrite disk plates which requires a precise perforation in the enamel.…”

“…The identified tools shared the same patterns of the Mayan lapidary tradition of abrading with limestone, cutting with obsidian, polishing with jadeite nodules and brightening with leather (Melgar Tísoc 2017). Following these techniques, the lapidary artisans shaped this object as an incisive tooth with a dental inlay E‐1 type (Romero 1958). The prosthetic part may have been a unique feature of this individual and that has not been reported earlier in Mesoamerica, is the discovery of a prostatic tooth made of mixed jadeite (a silicate of sodium and aluminum) identified by chemical composition with Electron Microprobe (Figure 5) and molecular bonds by Micro‐Raman Spectroscopy (Figure 6).…”

“…The identified tools shared the same patterns of the Mayan lapidary tradition of abrading with limestone, cutting with obsidian, polishing with jadeite nodules, and brightening with leather (Melgar Tísoc 2017). Following these techniques, the lapidary artisans shaped this object as an incisive tooth with a dental inlay E‐1 type (Romero 1958). The prosthetic part may have been the absolute geomagnetic intensity record from the pottery sherds of some of the artefacts dates the funerary deposit in between 570 and 660 A.D. (Avto et al 2017), one of the latest periods in the city's development and for which the least amount of data are available.…”