<< Text Pages >> Noh Kah - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico in Quintana Roo
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Multi-periodSite Name: Noh KahCountry: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 1.784 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Quintana Roo Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Chetumal Nearest Village: El Paredón
Latitude: 18.490000N Longitude: 88.32W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Ancient City in Quintana Roo.
A Mayan city whose six architectural groups appear to have been built as part of 'construction boom' sometime during the Early Classic Period, 250AD to 600AD. Another construction period took place in the Late Classic, between about 600 and 800 AD.
A team of archaeologists (lead by Javier Lopez Camacho) and students used aerial photography followed by ground survey to produce topographic maps of six major building groups surrounded by residential areas.
Based on hieroglyphic text, Noh Kah (named by modern locals as "the Big City,") may have been an early seat of government of the "Kaan" Dynasty, or "Snake Kingdom" during the 5C. Later, the seat of the Kaan Dynasty moved to Calakmul in the 6C.
Mapping continues to see how Noh Kah was structured, how the architectural groups joined through roads, and how infrastructure provided the water supply. The location given it extremely rough for the general area of the site.
Note: Lost Maya city of Noh Kah has been mapped. See comment.
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