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<< Text Pages >> Noh Kah - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico in Quintana Roo

Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 17 June 2014  Page Views: 1740

Multi-periodSite Name: Noh Kah
Country: 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:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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1Awful
0No data.
no data 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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1 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
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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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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Lost Maya city of Noh Kah has been mapped by bat400 on Tuesday, 17 June 2014
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Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have at last confirmed that the forest in Quintana Roo hides an ancient Maya urban centre covering more than 34 hectares, containing at least six architectural groups.

The researchers could give the site no other name than what the locals called the area; Noh Kah, “Big Cityâ€. For two years, specialists from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) along with archaeologists from the INAH carried out detailed field collection of ceramic material and the topographic survey of the ancient metropolis.

Although it was the Paredón site that alerted the INAH to the importance of the site, archaeologist Javier Lopez Camacho, who heads these survey work, explained that this was only a small part of what he described as a, “construction boom in the city that took place more than 1,500 years ago, in the Early Classic period, between 250 and 600 ADâ€.

“Noh Kah belongs to a very important area that is the banks of the Hondo River, adjacent to Belize, where monumental sites were unknown, and this will throw new light on what is now known as Dzibanché sites. †He continued.

Using aerial photography, the team of archaeologists along with a group of students, scoured the jungle for signs of archaeological features, but in the end it was necessary to follow up all the possible sites on the ground to locate and map them using a total station to create topographic plans of each architectural group.

Noh Kah will provide a great deal of new information about the influence of the Kaan dynasty in what is now southern Quintana Roo, which was first recognized at this site by the presence of the glyph “Snake Headâ€. The hieroglyphic texts suggest this was the location of his government during the 5th century AD, before moving to Calakmul in the sixth century.

The form and structure of the mounds and exposed masonry reveal two cultural stages in Noh Kah. The first one to the Early Classic, connected to the expansion of government institutions and material culture from Central Petén, in northern Guatemala today.

After the defeat of Tikal, to 562 AD, by the Calakmul state, the settlement had another period of development; “during the Late Classic, between about 600 and 800 AD, influenced by the province of Río Bec on the Yucatan Peninsulaâ€, said the archaeologist.

It still remains to define the full extent of Noh Kah. Its distribution pattern matches the pattern of settlement of other sites in southern Quintana Roo; characterized by the separation of the central area of ​​the city into dispersed sub-cities or architectural groups, with pyramids, platforms, ceremonial areas and houses for the elite in order to exercise greater control over the population.

The architectural groups of the ancient city that have been named The Corozal, The Pich, The Paredón, The Pocito, Hop Na and The Viente, are separated by distances ranging from 0.5 to 3 kilometres. Given the ruggedness of the terrain, the builders had to construct hillside terraces, making them difficult to detect from the air which is why they remained hidden for centuries.

At the Pich, political power is revealed by the architecture, with one mound measuring 100 metres in length in addition to three courtyards at different levels, surrounded by residential structures and a ceremonial building of greater height.

Mapping Noh Kah, looking to see how it was structured, how the architectural groups joined through roads, and infrastructure that allowed the water supply is all part of an ongoing project.

This data will help to understand the organisation of the site and its evolution from the Early Classic to Late Classic and its place in Mayan archaeology.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more see http://www.pasthorizonspr.com
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