Excavations at El Achiotal: Changing Political and Religious Institutions Reflected in Architecture
Author(s): Ernesto Arredondo
Year: 2018
Summary
The archaeological site of El Achiotal is located on the southwestern fringe of the region known as the Mirador Basin. During the Late Preclassic period (300 BC – 250 AD), it participated in mainstream architectonic traditions of the Central Maya Lowlands, exemplified by its main building, Structure 5C-01. With the advent of Early Classic times (ca. 250 AD), changes appeared in the architecture of Structure 5C-01 and at the adjacent Structure 5C-08. These later changes express the political fluctuations in the region. In this paper we will review the construction sequence observed at the site, after three field seasons as part of the larger La Corona Regional Archaeological Project.
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Excavations at El Achiotal: Changing Political and Religious Institutions Reflected in Architecture. Ernesto Arredondo. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 445419)
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Keywords
General
Architecture
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Maya: Preclassic
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Maya lowlands
Spatial Coverage
min long: -94.197; min lat: 16.004 ; max long: -86.682; max lat: 21.984 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22368