What Once Was Lost, Now Is Found: Investigating the Relationships of Lower Dover in the Belize River Valley

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Located on the Belize River across from Barton Ramie, preliminary investigations of the recently discovered site of Lower Dover began in 2010. The primary foci of excavations were to situate Lower Dover in the sociopolitical landscape of the Belize River Valley. Initially, investigations focused on the monumental architecture of the site’s epicenter, as well as the plazuela groups adjacent to the site core. Lower Dover is uniquely oriented north to south unlike other sites in the Valley, reflecting its rapid construction in the Late Classic period. The ceremonial center consists of four courtyards and two open access plaza groups surrounded by a set of smaller plazuela groups whose relationship to the center has yet to be established. Most recently, continuing excavations have centered not only on the site core, but also on periphery settlement groups. This poster presents an overview of the ongoing research being conducted at Lower Dover.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25517