Newsworthy for those contemplating a visit to the City of Oaxaca and its central valleys, is the UNESCO announcement on August 1, 2010, that two pre-Hispanic archaeological complexes and a series of pre-historic caves and rock shelters have been designated a World Heritage Site:
"Some of these shelters provide archaeological and rock-art evidence for the progress of nomadic hunter-gatherers to incipient farmers. Ten thousand year old seeds in one cave ... are considered to be the earliest known evidence of domesticated plants in the continent while corn cob fragments from the same cave are said to be the earliest documented evidence for the domestication of maize."
The rock shelters with pictographs at Xaagá, outside of Mitla, are fairly easily accessible, and from the highway one can easily see the painting on the steep rock facing at the entrance to Yagul.
Alvin Starkman - Casa Machaya Oaxaca Bed & Breakfast
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