Establishing the Acropolis: Two Seasons of Excavation at Chan Chich
Author(s): Krystle Kelley
Year: 2015
Summary
Open plaza spaces are a commonality among Maya sites. Excavating through the sealed contexts of these plaza surfaces can yield reliable data on the construction history of the site and how the space may have changed over time. This paper details the results from two seasons of excavations, which took place in May-June of 2012 and 2013 at the Maya site of Chan Chich in Northwestern Belize. Our investigations focused on the Upper Plaza, located at the acropolis of the site. Our investigations uncovered buried architecture below the plaza surface, as well as a series of plaster and compact dirt surfaces, a problematic deposit, a midden, and a burial that included human and canine remains.
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Establishing the Acropolis: Two Seasons of Excavation at Chan Chich. Krystle Kelley. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 398416)
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Geographic Keywords
Central America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -94.702; min lat: 6.665 ; max long: -76.685; max lat: 18.813 ;