Further excavations are planned to search for a shaft tomb.

The shaft tombs were often associated with an overlying building.

Materials stolen from the pyramid complex could be found in nearby shaft tombs.

Jequier also found shaft tombs nearby, which may have belonged to other family members.

Developed a smaller ceramics variety and built rougher shaft tombs.

However, more recently a number of cemeteries have yielded single north-south shaft tombs.

Several shaft tombs of officials of the Late Period.

The shaft tomb tradition is thought to have developed around 300 BCE.

The tomb of Maherperi is a small shaft tomb with a chamber at the bottom on the west side.

Ceramic from Colima cultures, was primarily deposited as offering in shaft tombs.

During the first stage a cultural complex was developed known as the Shaft Tomb tradition in which offerings were placed inside of funeral chambers.

Lumholtz was one of the first to describe artifacts from the ancient shaft tomb and the Tarascan cultures.

Until recently, the looted artifacts were all that was known of the people and culture or cultures that created the shaft tombs.

It is now thought that, although shaft tombs are widely diffused across the area, the region was not a unified cultural area.

Common subjects of shaft tomb tradition ceramics are:

Ancestor (or marriage) pairs of female and male figurines are common among shaft tomb tradition grave goods.

These shaft tombs were around 4m deep with the dead placed in cists at the bottom along with rich grave goods.

The contents of the tomb were intact, making this the first unrobbed shaft tomb found in Egypt since 1941.

Nearly all of the artifacts associated with this shaft tomb tradition have been discovered by looters and are without provenance, making dating problematic.

These tombs can be considered the oldest antecedent of shaft tombs, which include this site archaeological material.

Another section of the museum is dedicated to local pre Hispanic ceramics, mostly funerary offerings from shaft tombs.

Human subjects within the Colima style are more "mannered and less exuberant" than other shaft tomb figurines.

The Teuchitlán tradition appears to be an outgrowth and elaboration of the shaft tomb tradition.

It is interesting to note the similarities between western Mexico and South America, since in regions of both places shaft tombs were built.

The first major undisturbed shaft tomb associated with the tradition was not discovered but until 1993, at Huitzilapa, Jalisco.