Archaeologists discover ancient Maya city at Mexico construction site | Mexico | The Guardian Resear
Archaeologists discover ancient Maya city at Mexico construction site | Mexico | The Guardian Researchers estimate the city, which features the Maya Puuc style of architecture, to have been occupied from 600 to 900 CEArchaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Maya city filled with palaces, pyramids and plazas on a construction site of what will become an industrial park near Mérida, on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula.The site, called Xiol, has features of the Maya Puuc style of architecture, archaeologists said, which is common in the southern Yucatán peninsula but rare near Mérida.“We think more than 4,000 people lived around here,” said Carlos Peraza, one of the archaeologists who led the excavation of the city, estimated to have been occupied from 600 to 900 CE.“There were people from different social classes … priests, scribes, who lived in these great palaces, and there were also the common people who lived in small buildings,” Peraza said.Researchers also located nearby burial grounds of adults and children, who were interred with obsidian and flint tools, offerings and other belongings. … -- source link
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