Middle Preclassic Settlements in the Petén Lakes Region of Guatemala

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Petén Lakes Region, Petén, Guatemala" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Proyecto Itza has recently resurveyed a large area to the south of Lake Petén Itzá in Petén, Guatemala, extending from Lake Salpeten to Laguna Perdida. The work utilized a variety of methods including total station mapping, photogrammetry, and lidar (conducted by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping). The goal of the research is to discern the development of settlement hierarchies during the Middle Preclassic period and to find evidence of human settlement missed by earlier surveys. The surveys obviously encountered developments from other time period. The new data will serve as a foundation for future work in Petén by Proyecto Itza and other projects.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Research in the Petén Lakes Region, Petén, Guatemala   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36174.0