A sacrificial mass burial at Miramar, Chiapas, Mexico

While working at Mirador during the 1965
season (Agrinier 1970), I made a short in¬
vestigation of the nearby site of Miramar, ex¬
ploring the surface and making five test pits.
My intention was to make a preliminary eval¬
uation of the cultural and chronological posi¬
tion of Miramar with relation to Mirador.
The locations for the test pits were chosen
for their potential ceramic stratigraphy, with
an intention to avoid other cultural features,
such as masonry walls, caches, and burials.
However, in the case of Pit 2, my intentions
were diverted; the mass burial I encountered
there occupied me for most of the short sea¬
son, from the middle of May to the first days
of June, 1965. Two other short explorations I
made in 1973 and 1974 added a few additional
details.