- Title: Unearthed artefacts at ancient Mayan city shed new light on civilisation
- Date: 3rd July 2023
- Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (JUNE 30, 2023) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PHD ARCHAEOLOGIST, CARLOS MORALES AGUILAR, SAYING: “In 300 BC, when they knew their first peak, they already had a quite complex urban planning, and had already solved — in some way — their whole subsistence system to sustain large numbers of population.â€
- Embargoed: 17th July 2023 19:42
- Keywords: Archaeology Guatemala Maya Mesoamerican Mexico Remero discovery
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- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,South America / Central America,North America
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- Story Text: Artefacts unearthed at an ancient Mayan settlement in Guatemala are shedding new light on the civilisation and its possible ties to other cultural groups.
Deep in the northern Guatemalan jungle lies the Mirador archaeological site, which dates as far back as 1,000 BCE.
Archaeologists from Guatemala's FARES foundation have unearthed ceramic plaques at the settlement that reveal reported links to the Olmecs, one of the earliest civilisations in the Mesoamerica region that ruled Campeche and Yucatan in modern-day Mexico.
The finds reportedly stretch back to the so-called middle to late pre-classical Mayan era, from around 1,000-350 BCE.
That dates these artefacts to some 500 years before the classical peak of Mayan civilisation.
These discoveries suggest that the Mirador archaeological site could have been an important metropolis in its heyday.
Archaeological work at the site has already unearthed evidence of over 400 settlements spread across 132 square metres.
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