Chuchita, Puebla City´s the oldest citizen.

In 2010, during an archaeological exploration in the building known as Casa del Mendrugo, floor levels of the colonial era were discovered as well as a series of dumps that show a sequence of occupation of the property since its founding phase (1531-1550 ) until the late twentieth century. Just below those levels, earliest colonial indigenous ceramic was found with traditional shapes, decorations and colors characteristic of Formative Horizon pottery.

These elements led the research team to further explorations. Thus, the first excavation was extended and new ones followed. A wall of limestone cut into irregular bolcks held together with mud, was found with an associated same factory floor. Under this floor a large roundish pot was found containing approximately thirty different objects: figurines and greenstone pectorals, magnetite mirrors, chest shell and obsidian knives, among others. It came obvious that it was a burial gift.

Subsequently two meters away of the offering, the burial of a female individual, of 1.20 m. high with an approximate age of 60 years at death was located. Named "Chuchita" by the team of physical anthropologists who studied the finding, the skeleton shows evidence of various diseases and injuries leading to infer it belonged to an individual with difficulty to survive for a period of over twenty years, during which she was in the need of special care and assistance. Associated archaeological materials show formal and stylistic features related to the Olmec culture, which allow this amazing burial discovery to be placed chronologically in an approximate period of the Early-Middle Formative ( 1500-1200 BC).

It should be noted that something like this had been discovered never before in the city of Puebla since there is archaeological evidence of ceramic artifacts, stone, architecture and remains of human population in the same context. The researchers inferred that a village that had some connection with the Olmec culture existed during the Horizon Formative in the historic center of the present city of Puebla, at least in its traditions evident in the materials recovered during investigation.