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<< Text Pages >> Chilonche - Ancient Village or Settlement in Guatemala

Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 25 February 2010  Page Views: 7275

Multi-periodSite Name: Chilonche
Country: Guatemala
NOTE: This site is 26.989 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 16.812444N  Longitude: 89.561694W
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Ancient Settlement in Peten, Guatemala. Archaeologists have discovered a huge Mayan sculptured head in Guatemala that suggests a little-known site in the jungle-covered Peten region may once have been a significant city. The stucco sculpture, which is more than three metres wide by four metres high, was buried for centuries at the Chilonche ruins, close to the border with Belize.

The recent discovery of the head, which dates from the early Classic period between 300 to 600 AD, means the site is much older than previously thought. The Maya often constructed new buildings using older ones as foundations.

"It could be an imaginary being, something from the underworld, perhaps linked to a Mayan deity," Polytechnic University of Valencia professor Gaspar Munoz, part of the team of archaeologists that found the head, said.

Unlike Guatemala's famous Mayan cities of Tikal and El Mirador, little excavation has been carried out at Chilonche.

Looters, looking for artifacts to sell on the black market, had dug a small tunnel passing the buried sculpture, which is similar to others decorating a solar observatory at another site, Uaxactun. Guatemala's Peten region is home to dozens of Mayan ruins, but the largely jungle-covered area is plagued by looters, poachers and smugglers taking cocaine to Mexico.

Note: location given is general to a group of Mayan cities in Peten. Chilonche is described as being near Naranjo, Nakum, and Tikal.

Read More, and a photo at The Herald Sun.

Note: Find at Mayan Center Leads to book on Mayan Pictographs.
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Spanish Researchers Publish Work on Mayan Pictographs by bat400 on Thursday, 25 February 2010
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Submitted by coldrum ---

Spanish researchers from Valencia University presented in Guatemala a book analyzing the meaning of drawings and incisions on a Mayan architectural decoration in the form of a mask dating back to between 300 and 600 A.D.

The publication “Los Grafitos Mayas” (Mayan Pictographs) has been prepared by the team of Spanish and Guatemalan researchers who last January announced the discovery of a stucco mask at the La Blanca archaeological project in the province of Peten in northern Guatemala.

The book, according to Spanish academic Gaspar Muñoz Cosme, who has directed the project for the last six years, “seeks to spark interest and vindicate the importance of pictographs, which are normally seen as a minor art” within the Mayan culture.

The decorations on the mask, Muñoz said, “are of great quality, and show that whoever sculpted them were true artists,” since they were able to immortalize the cultural characteristics of that ancestral civilization.

This book, according to Muñoz, is considered the “most extensive and complete” scientific publication to date on Mayan pictographs.

The Spanish archaeologists found the Mayan mask last year “by chance” in the ruins of Chilonche, at some 600 kilometers (373 miles) north of the Guatemalan capital. EFE

For more, see Latin America Herald Tribune.
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