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Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 23 November 2011  Page Views: 7085

Multi-periodSite Name: Kabah Alternative Name: Kabahaucan
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 8.185 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Yucatan Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Santa Elena
Latitude: 20.248309N  Longitude: 89.647809W
Condition:
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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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4 Ambience:
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3 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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Kabah
Kabah submitted by davidmorgan : The Palace of Masks at Kabah. Over 250 faces of the rain-god Chaac. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Maya city in the hilly Puuc region of the Yucatan. Inhabited from about 300 CE and abandoned several centuries before the Spanish conquest. Most buildings date from Classic and Late Classic periods (700 - 1000 CE).

Noted for its Palace of Masks with hundreds of faces of the rain-god Chaac, and its gateway on the sacbe to Uxmal.

Note: Archaeologists find royal kitchen at ancient Maya city of Kabah
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Kabah submitted by LivingRocks : The more restrained Structure 2 at Kabah. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kabah submitted by SolarMegalith : Kabah - structure with typical features of Puuc style (photo taken on March 2002). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kabah submitted by davidmorgan : Detail of the Palace of Masks - hundreds of Chaacs. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kabah submitted by davidmorgan : The gateway at Kabah on the sacbe to Uxmal. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kabah submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing of the arch, from "Ancient America" via archive.org Site in Yucatan Mexico

Kabah
Kabah submitted by durhamnature : Facade of the palace. Old drawing from "Prehistoric America; 4" via archive.org

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Archaeologists find royal kitchen at ancient Mayan city of Kabah by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 23 November 2011
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Recent investigations at the archaeological site of Kabah in Yucatan resulted in the discovery of the royal kitchen of this ancient Mayan city; the cooking facilities and utensils found there may be as old as 1,000 years.
Researchers at the National Institute of Anthropology and History have been excavating the area for a year, searching for evidence to determine the activities that took place in what was the royal residence at Kabah. The sector was an area where the elite of the ancient Mayan city lived.
The area occupied by the old kitchen is 40 metres long by 14 metres wide. In this place, the researchers found the remains of masonry architecture, traces of fireplaces, large amounts of pottery and stone artifacts whose age is estimated at over a thousand years.

According to the experts the age of the archaeological material discovered covers the years 750-950 AD, the period when the pre-Hispanic city reached its highest development.

The arrangement of the objects found shows that within the royal kitchen there were spaces for different functions: in two spaces they found remains of pottery vessels up to 70 cm in diameter, in surrounding areas they found cooking tools, and in other sectors, the remains of stone fireplaces.

On a tour the archaeologists offered to the press to show the finding, the researchers detailed that they have located more than 30 000 pieces of pottery and 70 stone artifacts to butcher animals and process vegetables for consumption. Those include metates (mealing stones) metate hands, hammers, knives, blades and scrapers, as well as traces of masonry and other decayed materials.

Lourdes Toscano, archaeologist of INAH, explained that the pottery found at Kabah, and previously discovered in the interior of palaces in the mountainous region of Yucatan, is similar to that found in common houses. However, the main difference between them is the quantity and size of the vessels.

“We believe that large amounts of food were cooked in the palaces, so the dishes were larger, and they had more tools of various forms for different uses." said Toscano.

Toscano explained that the archaeological investigation of the royal kitchen of Kabah has been assisted by biochemical studies conducted by specialists from the Department of Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Yucatan. They were able to confirm the existence of two areas of cooking fireplaces with evidence of organic matter, which probably corresponds to the remains of animals, but have not been able to identify the species because they only found a very small piece of bone.

Toscano said that one of the big questions for researchers is to know why they have not found more animal bones, since in this place large volumes of food were cooked, more bone waste could be expected.
She proposed as an explanation the possibility that waste from the kitchen was not discarded at or near the place:

“This was a food preparation area where waste was not maintained. Chances are that there are dumping sites nearby.”

This hypothesis has led the team of archaeologists to expand the excavations in search of waste disposal sites.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/314582
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