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The organic remains are even better preserved than those of Pompeii, Sheets said. Mount Vesuvius buried the resort community of Pompeii with a coarse pumice, while the Salvadoran volcano —known as Laguna Caldera —spouted a finer ash that was a better preservant.
Volcanoes Hard to Miss
The Maya dwelling was found near the village of Ceren, 20 miles northwest of El Salvador’s capital of San Salvador in a volcano-ringed valley known as Zapotitan. There, as in the rest of El Salvador, it is difficult to get away from volcanoes. They dominate the country in a band running from north to south, and they have shaped its history.
The doomed family of the Ceren site had built its home on the white ash of another eruption—that of Ilopango, which had blown up 300 years earlier with such violence that whole forests were uprooted and instantly carbonized. Thousands of people were killed. *
The Mayas had avoided the area 60 miles around Ilopango for 200 years, migrating to the lowlands of what now are Guatemala and Belize. The migration was an
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