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Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 30 December 2009  Page Views: 11019

Multi-periodSite Name: Copa'n
Country: Honduras Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 14.838940N  Longitude: 89.14204W
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Copa'n (Honduras)
Copa'n (Honduras) submitted by bat400 : Stele at Copa'n, Honduras. Photo 2008, B.Zerfas. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient City in Copa'n Department of Honduras.
A Classical Mayan city that flourished from the 500 to 900 AD. Famed for its portrait stela of rulers, the site also contains pyramids, a ball court, and private homes made of stone and decorated with carvings.

Copán is well known for grand, carved and inscribed monuments, a hieroglyphic stairway with the longest text in the Americas, and other famed discoveries in the ceremonial center of the city and its Acropolis. The area shows signs of pre-Maya occupation back to 2000 BC. The city was not occupied as an active site by the time of the Spanish conquest, although small farming communities lay close at hand.

Note: Dynastic founder of Mayan Copán may have been installed by kingdom to the north. See comments.
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Copa'n (Honduras)
Copa'n (Honduras) submitted by DrewParsons : One of the stela by a temple in 1993. We were the only visitors there. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Copa'n (Honduras)
Copa'n (Honduras) submitted by DrewParsons : I crossed the border from Guatemala on a mud road to reach this site in 1993. This photo shows the Ball Court. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Copa'n (Honduras)
Copa'n (Honduras) submitted by DrewParsons : I visited the site in 1993 when excavations were still at an early stage. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Copa'n (Honduras)
Copa'n (Honduras) submitted by bat400 : Copa'n. Photo: 2008, B. Zerfas. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Copa'n (Honduras)
Copa'n (Honduras) submitted by bat400 : Ballcourt at Copa'n. Photo: 2008, B. Zerfas. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Dragon sculpture, from "Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua" via archive.org

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Drawing of the ruins from "Inscriptions at Copan" via archive.org Site in Honduras

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Plan or model of the ruins, from "Mexican Archaeology" via archive.org Site in Honduras

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Old photo from "Prehistoric North America" via archive.org

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Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from "Prehistoric America; 4" via archive.org

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Copa'n submitted by Sunny100 : Site in Honduras. A painting by the English artist Frederick Catherwood about 1839-42. Stelae H at the ancient Mayan ruins of Copan, Honduras. Standing at over 7 feet high it is elaborately carved with the figure of King Uaxaklajuan (the Maize god). The portrait stone dates from 730 CE when the king was beheaded by the rival king of Quirigua. The stone also has glyphs - ancient Mayan w... (4 comments)

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Plan of central area from "Inscriptions at Copan" via archive.org Site in Honduras

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Map of Copan valley from "Inscriptions at Copan" via archive.org Site in Honduras

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Sculpture, from "Archaeological Report" (of Ontario Museum) via archive.org

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Old photo of stela H, from "Mexican Archaeology" via archive.org Site in Honduras

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Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Stele A - Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil. The date on this stele is early 732 AD. Old photo from "Prehistoric Man in..." via archive.org

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from "Prehistoric America; 4" via archive.org

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Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Heiroglyphic stairway. Old photo from "Prehistoric America; 4" via archive.org

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from "Prehistoric America; 4" via archive.org

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by durhamnature : Ground plan of the nunnery. Old drawing from "Prehistoric America; 4" via archive.org

Copa'n
Copa'n submitted by DrewParsons : Excavation work in January 1993.

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Talk: Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs with 3D Technology, Nov 8th, Cambridge, MA by Andy B on Thursday, 19 October 2017
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Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs with 3D Technology
Nov 08, 2017, 6:00 pm
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Free Public Lecture

Barbara Fash, Director, Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program and the Gordon R. Willey Laboratory for Mesoamerican Studies, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

The Peabody Museum has conducted archaeological research in the Maya site of Copan, Honduras, since the 1890s. One of Copan’s most iconic elements is a staircase made of over 620 blocks carved with Maya glyphs. Dating back to the eighth century CE, this stairway has captivated Mayanists since its discovery, but the meaning of its texts has remained a mystery—until now. Barbara Fash will discuss how 3D technology and scholarly collaborations are merging to decode the Hieroglyphic Stairway, in conjunction with Honduran and international organizations aimed at conserving this World Heritage Site.

Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.

Related exhibition: See videos and 3D-printed scale models from Copan in All the World Is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology
https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/all-the-world
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Ancient Maya king shows his foreign roots by bat400 on Wednesday, 30 December 2009
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Dynastic founder may have been installed by kingdom to the north
A tomb excavated at Copán, ancient capital of a Maya state, contains the bones of the site’s first king, researchers say. New evidence suggests that a distant Maya city colonized Copán and installed this dynastic founder.

A man’s skeleton found atop a stone slab at Copán, which was the capital of an ancient Maya state, contains clues to a colonial expansion that occurred more than 1,000 years before Spanish explorers reached the Americas.

The bones come from K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’, or KYKM for short, the researchers report in an upcoming Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. KYKM was the first of 16 kings who ruled Copán and surrounding highlands of what is today northern Honduras for about 400 years, from 426 to 820, say archaeologist T. Douglas Price of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his colleagues. KYKM’s bone chemistry indicates that he grew up in the central Maya lowlands, which are several hundred kilometers northwest of Copán.

Along with inscriptions at Copán, the new evidence suggests that the site’s first king was born into a ruling family at Caracol, a powerful lowland kingdom in Belize. KYKM probably spent his young adult years as a member of the royal court at Tikal, a Maya kingdom in the central lowlands of Guatemala, before being sent to Copán to found a new dynasty at the settlement there, Price’s team proposes.

“These findings reinforce the notion that the Copán state was founded as part of a colonial expansion,” says archaeologist and study coauthor Robert Sharer of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. “They also demonstrate the widespread connections maintained by Maya kings.” This line of investigation aims to unravel how Classic era Maya city-states, which dominated parts of Mexico and Central America from about 200 to 900, originated and developed.



For much more, see the article by Bruce Bower in http://www.sciencenews.org.
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'Mayan king' remains found - Copa'n by bat400 on Wednesday, 20 May 2009
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HONDURAN researchers believe they have uncovered the remains of one of the first kings of Central America's Mayan civilisation.
Archaeologists working at Copan - a major site for Mayan civilization culture - believe they have found bones belonging to one of 16 Mayan kings.

'We have found skeleton in a grave in the temple of Oropendola, which research suggests could be important because it may have belonged to one of the first rulers from the Mayan dynasty,' said the director the Honduran Anthropology and History Institute, Dario Euraque.

The Maya dynasties flourished better 426 and 820 AD throughout much of Central America and south eastern Mexico.

Euraque said the bones were in poor condition because 'a roof covering had collapsed on top of the remains of a 30-year-old man, but the teeth have been pretty well preserved.' -- AFP



Source: straitstimes.com.
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Unusual Upright Burial Reveals Complex Mayan Culture by bat400 on Tuesday, 22 May 2007
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Archaeologists working in Honduras have discovered an entombed human skeleton of an elite member of the ancient Maya Empire that may help unravel some longstanding mysteries of the vanished culture.

The remains, seated in an upright position in an unusual tomb and flanked by shells, pottery, vessels, and jade adornments, suggest a surprisingly diverse culture and complex political system in the influential Maya city of Copán around A.D. 650.

Until now, much about the political makeup and cultural range of the city—famous for its funerary slabs—has been poorly understood.

The position of the body, the structure of the tomb, and several unexpected artifacts suggest the interred individual was a political or priestly figure, said discoverer Allan Maca, an archaeologist at Colgate University in New York State.

The entombed individual was found with "a jade pectoral hung from a necklace of dozens of jade beads of various sizes," Maca said. Because jade was a precious commodity, he added, the jewels represent "a level of control over economic resources."

For More, see the National Geographic.
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    Photos Unusual Mayan Burial by bat400 on Wednesday, 30 May 2007
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    More on this story can be found here on the
    Colgate University website.
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    Another Article on Copan tomb find. by bat400 on Monday, 11 June 2007
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    Colgate anthropology professor Allan Maca and a team of researchers have found a previously unknown tomb in Copán, Honduras, dating back to the 7th century A.D. that contained the skeleton of an elite member of ancient Maya society in the city.

    The unusual characteristics of the tomb’s construction, the human remains, and the artifacts found near the body, according to Maca, paint a picture of an urban state that was more politically complex and culturally diverse than was previously thought.

    As reported this month by National Geographic News and the Honduran press, Maca and his group — which includes Kristin Landau, who graduated this May from Colgate — discovered the tomb in 2005 in Copán, an ancient city near the western edge of Honduras where the country borders Guatemala.

    Over the past two years, they have excavated and studied the tomb and its contents, with funding support from the National Geographic Society and Colgate.

    “Combined with other characteristics, it is becoming clear that this discovery provides unprecedented evidence for political complexity and cultural diversity at Copán during the early part of the Late Classic period [A.D. 600 to 750],” said Maca.



    For more, see the Colgate University website.
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