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Multi-periodSite Name: Zoque Culture Archaeological Zone
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 28.053 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Chiapa de Corzo
Latitude: 16.702800N  Longitude: 93.0041W
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Chiapas.
Opening in 2009, this is one of the first publicly accessible sites of the Zoque culture, contemporary with the Olmec and later, the Maya. Occupation was from 1400 BC to around 1400 AD. The city was at its height, especially in regards to the ruins now seen, at around 900 AD.

The remains of several stone buildings can be seen at the site. All have been determined to have been residences, potentially with a governmental role.

Note: Zoque Culture Archaeological Site Inaugurated.
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The Mesoamerican connection: part two - the Olmec (Zoque) civilization by Andy B on Friday, 21 May 2010
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The Mesoamerican connection: part two - the Olmec (Zoque) civilization

http://www.examiner.com/x-40598-Architecture--Design-Examiner~y2010m4d13-The-Mesoamerican-connection-part-two--the-Olmec-Zoque-civilization
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The Mesoamerican connection: early Maya architecture by Andy B on Friday, 21 May 2010
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Tourists visiting Maya city sites in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras are steered toward carefully restored stone and lime stucco monuments in the greatest cities that the Mayas built. The guided tours typically do not go into the suburbs of these cities, where one would only see occasional piles of rubble and the ground littered with red ceramic potsherds. Few tourists travel on sandy back roads between the major urban centers. This overgrown terrain is where most of the Mayas lived; either in small towns or on farmsteads.

One does not fully appreciate the scale of the Maya population at its peak until traveling in the back country. Every few kilometers, there are piles of rubble and earth overgrown with vines and trees, which are vestiges of small towns and villages. After centuries of abandonment, un-restored Maya buildings and pyramids look little different than the Indian mounds of North America. In fact, many of the structures in the smaller or oldest towns were never more than earthen pyramids. Their shapes were identical to the mounds of the Midwest, Mississippi Basin and Southeast.

During the period from 1400 BC to 400 BC, when the Olmec (Zoque) civilization dominated Mexico, few, if any stone structures were built. All known Zoque and proto-Maya “pyramids” are earthen mounds. The proto-Maya mounds were very small; typically one to three feet high accumulations of earth and rubble. Prior to when one temple or mako’s (chief’s) was replaced, the remaining rubble and detritus was capped with clay. This added a few more inches to the height of the platform. Exactly the same process caused Native American mounds to grow in time. However, during the very earliest days of an identifiable Maya culture, the platform villages and mounds of northern Louisiana would have been far larger and more sophisticated architectural efforts.

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Zoque Culture Archaeological Site Inaugurated at Chiapa de Corzo by bat400 on Saturday, 16 January 2010
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Chiapa de Corzo Archaeological Zone was inaugurated by Alfonso de Maria y Campos, National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) general director, and the governor of Chiapas State, Juan Sabines Guerrero, as part of the compromise acquired by the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, to open 10 new archaeological sites during his administration.

The Prehispanic site located 2 kilometers away from Grijalva River, in Chiapas, is one of the few Zoque Culture sites open to public in the country. The origin of this ceremonial and administrative center goes back 3,500 years, being a strategic point in commercial routes between the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico coasts.

Alfonso de Maria y Campos recalled the presidential compromise of opening to public 10 archaeological zones; 3 of them are in the southeastern state. “Chiapas is, in this sense, the most benefited entity, since two more sites will be inaugurated in the next years: Plan de Ayutla and Lagartero”. The archaeological site will become a meeting place, reinforcing Chiapas identity; the cultural park enhances Mexican heritage and testifies to the transformation of Chiapas people.

There are 3 main buildings at the zone, constructed during the apogee of the city, more than 1,000 years ago. Rulers resided in the constructions known as El Palacio or Structure 1; Structure 5 and Structure 7.

“They are the most representative examples of places where ritual and administrative activities took place, around 900 AD, when nearly 70,000 persons dwelled the nearby places”, archaeologist Adan Pacheco Benitez explained.

The city was founded near 1,400 BC, having constant dwelling and development. “In different moments, Chiapa de Corzo maintained relations with Olmeca and Maya cultures. It sustained a strong relation with Olmeca groups near 850 and 450 AD, due to the closeness with San Lorenzo, La Venta and Izapa.

“The link with Maya people came after, from 400 BC, as ceramic material found in the site reveal. This relation was also close, adopting Zoque people the ceramic known as Maya Sierra Red Pottery and manufacturing it”.

Archaeologist Pacheco added that during 3 years of excavation and restoration, more than 60,000 fragments of ceramic material have been found, being analyzed half of them. These studies have determined the different occupations of the area. Regarding the city’s abandonment causes, hypothesis point out to changes in commercial routes or internal conflicts. “After the peak around 900 AD, came the desertion, but it was inhabited soon again by Zoques, but not as a sacred space.

“By the end of 1,400 AD, Zoques were expelled by Chiapa groups, although they remained in the site for a short period: in 1528 Spaniards arrived, commanded by Diego de Mazariegos. A myth tells that Chiapa people decided to throw themselves to Sumidero Canyon before being conquered”, concluded Pacheco Benitez.

For more, see Art Daily and the Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History whose news item includes a photograph.
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