Cotzumalhuapa
Sign in to saveright|300px|thumb|Stela 1, from El Baúl, with the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar date of 7.19.15.7.12.right|thumb|A sculpture from El Baúl Cotzumalhuapa archaeological culture is from the piedmont area of the Escuintla Department, Guatemala. The Cotzumalhuapa archaeological zone is near the town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (the city is spelled with a g — Cotzumalguapa — and the culture tends to be spelled with an h — Cotzumalhuapa).
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- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa
- Image
- Cozumalhuapakultur Ethnologisches Museum Berlin 05.JPG
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- Commons category
- Cotzumalhuapa culture
- culture
- Maya civilization
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Introduction
- Artefacts
- Culture
- Influence
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
right|300px|thumb|Stela 1, from El Baúl, with the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar date of 7.19.15.7.12.right|thumb|A sculpture from El Baúl Cotzumalhuapa archaeological culture is from the piedmont area of the Escuintla Department, Guatemala. The Cotzumalhuapa archaeological zone is near the town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (the city is spelled with a g — Cotzumalguapa — and the culture tends to be spelled with an h — Cotzumalhuapa).
The Cotzumalhuapa archaeological zone is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological zone dating mainly to the Late Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology, although it was occupied since the Middle Preclassic period and there is evidence of a major development during the Late Preclassic period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cotzumalhuapa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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