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<< Our Photo Pages >> Mayapan - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico in Yucatan

Submitted by davidmorgan on Monday, 19 February 2007  Page Views: 6030

Multi-periodSite Name: Mayapan Alternative Name: Màayapáan
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 22.887 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Yucatan Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Tecoh  Nearest Village: Poccheiná
Latitude: 20.629444N  Longitude: 89.460556W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
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5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Mayapan
Mayapan submitted by davidmorgan : Maya political capital from the 13th to the 15th century CE. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient City in Yucatán.
Maya political capital from the 13th to the 15th century CE.

Mayapan was the political and cultural capital of the Maya in the Yucatán Peninsula during the Late Post-Classic period from the 1220s until the 1440s. Estimates of the total city population are 15,000-17,000 persons, and the site has more than 4000 structures within the city walls, and additional dwellings outside.

Note: Maya Skulls Show Signs of Wooden-Club Warfare. See comment.
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Mayapan
Mayapan submitted by davidmorgan : The Maya rain god Chaac in front of the observatory. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mayapan
Mayapan submitted by davidmorgan : View from the Kukulcan pyramid. There's a nice green tree growing out of the cenote. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mayapan submitted by davidmorgan : The Temple of Kukulcan at Mayapan. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mayapan submitted by SolarMegalith : Mayapan - view for the main pyramid. The city was an important political centre in final period of Mayan civilization (photo taken on March 2002). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mayapan submitted by SolarMegalith : Mayapan - view from El Castillo. In Post-Classic period, between 13th and 15th century AC Mayapan was one of the most powerful Mayan centres of Yucatan (photo taken on March 2002).

Mayapan
Mayapan submitted by SolarMegalith : Mayapan - Temple of Kukulcan (known also as El Castillo) with me climbing it (photo taken on March 2002).

Mayapan
Mayapan submitted by SolarMegalith : These carvings in Mayapan are located near the base of El Castillo (photo taken on March 2002).

Mayapan
Mayapan submitted by davidmorgan : Painted frescoes at the pyramid.

Mayapan
Mayapan submitted by davidmorgan : Stucco figures at the base of the Kukulcan pyramid. (2 comments)

Mayapan
Mayapan submitted by durhamnature : Drawing, from "Ancient America" via archive.org Site in Yucatan Mexico

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Maya Skulls Show Signs of Wooden-Club Warfare by bat400 on Thursday, 03 April 2014
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A close examination of 116 skulls left over from 2000 years of warfare indicates that ancient Mayan armies used nasty spiked clubs for combat in open terrain.

The widespread adoption of these clubs, as well as projectiles, may have been due to larger armies enlisting more commoners.

A recent published study follows previous research into Mayan skeletal trauma indicating a fondness for flaying and decapitation, heart extraction, dismemberment, de-fleshing, parry fractures and head fractures.

While Mayan artwork has depicted spiked clubs, this latest research is the first evidence from head injuries of the clubs' use.

It was carried out to trace changing patterns of violence and warfare relating to distinct periods in the Mayan civilisation. The findings are published online at http://bit.ly/1dIwyTR ahead of print publication in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

CQUniversity 'bioarchaeologist' Dr Stan Serafin, now based in Rockhampton, was part of a team who examined skulls and skeletons recovered from 13 sites in Northwest Yucatan, Mexico, where the Mayan peoples have lived for over 3000 years.

The authors, who also included Carlos Peraza Lope and Eunice Uc González of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, were particularly interested in periods of population peak, population collapse and the post-collapse (Postclassic) period considered a period of increased social strife and militarism.

Dr Serafin says that while there was no apparent boost in warfare contributing to the Classic period collapse (in fact there was a decrease), the researchers did find an increase in violence in the Postclassic period "which is to be expected since hard times tend to breed violence".

"The increase in cranial trauma frequency in the Postclassic, though not statistically significant, supports the long held view of the Postclassic as a time of increased militarism, particularly at the regional capital of Mayapan," the authors write.

"The concentration of these injuries in the left frontal suggests they resulted from blows delivered with close quarter weapons by right-handed assailants in face-to-face confrontations.

"However, while some of these injuries may have been from arrows, a wooden club with protruding points would better account for their concentration in the left frontal and horizontal orientation in four out of five examples.

"A predominance of wounds in males towards the anterior and left side of the skull during all periods suggests greater reliance on open combat between military units and less on raiding compared to other parts of the Maya area."

Source: http://www.cqu.edu.au>
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