ANTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Mesoamerican Chronology, John Lloyd Stephens, Frederick Catherwood
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Little building activity at the site during later classic period, thus, unlike tikal and other maya sites, the site"s preclassic structures remain relatively undisturbed by later construction. West group: the central acropolis and the two platforms of tigre and monos complexes. Questions still remain as to how much was constructed prior to the maya classic period (a. d. Seems as though the rise of the first maya states precedes the classic period. Preclassic (formative) period 2000 bc- ad 300. Late in formative period, major urban centers were established in the highlands. Wrote a book called incidents of travel on central america, chiapas and yucatan (1841) The names of john lloyd stephens and frederick catherwood are forever linked to the maya and mayan studies as the two great explorers who documented the ruins from copan in the south to chichen itza in the north. The stories told by stephens in his incidents of travel in central.
