Xunantunich
Xunantunich is an archeological site Maya near to Cahal Pech at the border of the Guatemala and Belize. Its name means in virgin Maya stone . Located at the top of a hill, with the river with its feet, accessible by a vat, the ceremonial center of Xunantunich is not very wide.
The site is known since 1938. It then was cleaned and charted. The site is famous for its Fresque S of Stuc in good state of conservation (restored) around the stage of the pyramid princile.
Excavations were carried out on the southern part of the monument El Castillo in 1996. Castillo is one of the principal Maya vestiges of the Belize. This temple, flanked pyramidal structures, is one of the major monuments of a civilization which knew its apogee between VIIeet Xe century after J. - C.
The American archeologist Jason Yaeger excavated another building, a-13 structure. This monument, in bond with the Place A-III was, according to him, the residence and the place of the court of kings de Xunantunich, at least for a period of its history. Jason Yaeger made as the assumption as the access restricted to the building was a sign external of the will of the higher class to cut commun run of the people.
Like other rare Maya sites, this site survived the Maya decline and continued to be inhabited in another cultural context.
Between 200 before J.C and 200 after J.C., several sites of the type of Xunantunich developed in around the valley Belize.
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Related articles
- Maya Civilization
- Maya People
- List of the Maya sites
- Chichén Itzá
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- history of the Mayas
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