Town / City (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Settlements
Larger settlements with more dwellings and a wide variety of other kinds of structures. These settlements typically have internally organized infrastructure of streets or walkways and water and waste-disposal systems. Typically occupied for decades or centuries.
401-425 (2,061 Records)
View of some of the contents of Burial 10.
Color Plate 16 (2008)
Large jade earflares and beads from chamber burials.
Color Plate 17 (2008)
Jade pendants from chamber burials and a temple cache. From left, Burial 10, Cache 140A, Burial 23, Burial 10. Burial 10, and at lower right, Burial 24.
Color Plate 18 (2008)
The backs of the jade pendants shown in 17.
Color Plate 19 (2008)
Jade pendants from burials and a temple cache. Upper row, Burial 10, Cache 140A, lower row, Burial 24.
Color Plate 2 (2008)
Class 1E eccentrics of obsidian.
Color Plate 20 (2008)
Jade pendant and carved beads from Burial 10.
Color Plate 21 (2008)
Ear ornaments. Small flare from a burial or a cache. Right, large jade earflare shown without its throat disk, and left, large earflare of marbled dark green stone, probably unfinished, both from Burial 10.
Color Plate 22 (2008)
Head of Burial 196 at excavation with an in situ diadem of jade disks, composite ear ornaments, necklace of long, carved beads, and scattered jade pebble beads. The reddish tinge is from cinnabar pigment.
Color Plate 23 (2008)
Long, four-sided bead of jade carved with a diving figure on each face, traces of cinnabar pigment, Burial 196.
Color Plate 24 (2008)
Carved jade pendant from Burial 77.
Color Plate 25 (2008)
Celt-shaped pendant from Cache 209.
Color Plate 26 (2008)
Serpentine mask with Spondylus shell inlays from Burial 85.
Color Plate 27 (2008)
Carved bowl of calcite (tecalli) from Burial 196.
Color Plate 28 (2008)
Minor sculpture of crouching figure of soft, dark green stone from Burial 167.
Color Plate 29 (2008)
Above, perforated peccary tusk and two bone tubes. Below, eight pendants cut from white marine shell, part of a necklace found with Burial 121.
Color Plate 3 (2008)
Incised obsidians.
Color Plate 30 (2008)
Carved pendant of Spondylus shell, one of a pair, and one of a pair of Spondylus shell bead bracelets with polished bone clasps, from Burial 167.
Color Plate 31 (2008)
Large unworked stingray spine with traces of red pigment. Two parts of a composite pendant of cut nacreous shell with a large, round pearl bead-pendant between them, from Burial 116.
Color Plate 32 (2008)
A display of ornaments from Burial 196, Tikal Museum, 1968. From the top, jade diadem, pair of smaller composite jade ear ornaments, carved jade bead with diving figures, multi-strand necklace of pearl bead-pendants, pair of larger jade and shell composite ear ornaments, pair of bracelets of collared cylindrical jade beads.
Color Plate 33 (2008)
Shell trumpet from Problematical Deposit 7, scallop shell perforated for suspension from Burial 10, and an unworked Spondylus shell from Burial 116.
Color Plate 34 (2008)
A display of jade ornaments and Spondylus shells found with Burial 116, Tikal Museum, 1964. Note the large shell set over the top of the skull, the worked valves arranged over and along the body, and the unworked shell near the right ankle. Jade ornaments shown are a diadem, composite ear ornaments, a necklace of long beads with square sections, a necklace of graduated large pebble beads, bracelets and anklets of long cylinder beads, and scattered pebble beads.
Color Plate 35 (2008)
The upper portion of a long, carved bone object from the set of inscribed and plain bones from Burial 116. It is heavily coated with red cinnabar pigment.
Color Plate 36 (2008)
A battered minor sculpture of the head of a deity carved of dolomite, from Group 5D-11, the Central Acropolis.
Color Plate 4 (2008)
A set of Class 8 incised obsidians.