The site is located about 10 kilometers from Cuenca, Ecuador in friendly indigenous territory. The indigenous people alerted us personally by coming into town and knocking at our door. They told of the find whereupon we immediately went with them to the site only about 20 minutes away from or house in Cuena. Sure enough, it does. Scale used for the site photos is a camera lens cap which is exactly 2 inches in diameter from our Pentax camera.
Scale used for the tooth photos is a standard engineer's rule in inches.
The macro photo of the morphology of the tooth crown was taken by inverting the 35mm lens and holding it onto the camera body to produce a make shift but very workable macro lens. Other than what you see, we know at this point nothing. We posted this site first on February 25, 2000. We are awaiting a team of investigators schooled in such things. We want to have this site dug professionally and the results displayed in a Cuenca museum.