Sentences with phrase «maya lowlands»

Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands (Science, Volume 292, Number 5520, pp. 1367 - 1370, May 2001)-- David A. Hodell et al..

After the collapse of Chichen Itza the Itza people left the Yucatan to built their capital Tayasal on a small island in Lake Petén Itzá in the southern Maya lowlands.

Long thought to be a tertiary center, it is now known that the site was one of the most important regional political centers of the Maya Lowlands during the Classic Period.

All eight of these structures can be seen within what is known as the «Mayan area»; a stretch of over 625 miles in the Mesoamerica region that is separated loosely into three sections: the northern Maya lowlands, the central / southern Maya lowlands and the southern Maya highlands.

It only takes a few minutes with a map of the Maya lowlands to understand the importance of coastal and riverine canoe trade.

Reese - Taylor combed through hundreds of published inscriptions and royal portraits housed at university libraries in Canada and the U.S., looking for imagery of other warrior queens from the Maya lowlands around Naachtun.

We run an exciting trip air trip to Actun Tunichil Muknal, which is one of the most impressive caves in the Maya lowland.

Actun Tunichil Muknal «Cave of the Stone Sepulcher» is one of the most impressive caves in the Maya lowland.

Caracol was probably originally a client state of Tikal However, through urban planning and calculated warfare, Caracol became one of the most important city states of the Classic Period in the Maya Lowland region.

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She determined, by identifying characters in loose beaded skirts, that the lowland Maya had many warrior queens.

During that time it was probably the most powerful city in all of North America, dominating even the Classic Maya, who were their lowland contemporaries far to the east in what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala.

The country is divided into 4 geographic regions: the Maya Mountains in the south, the northern lowlands, the flat and swampy coastal plain, and the myriad cayes, islands and lagoons that fringe the coastline.

Mainland Belize, once completely the territory of the Ancient Maya offers many accessible Mayan sites to explore, as well as a huge underground cave system, beautiful, lush rainforests, spectacular waterfalls, mountains savannas and lowlands.

The geology of Belize can be divided broadly into the Northern Lowlands, the Maya Mountains, the Toledo Beds and the Pliestocene deposits, but there are other features including volcanic deposits of bentonite in the north and volcanic outcrops along the southern boundary of the Maya Mountains.

Located in the Peten lowland of Guatemala, this huge Classic Period Maya site, rich in jungle flora and fauna, is considered one of the world's premier Archaeological Reserves.

The Costa Maya falls under the western lowlands.

From the top of the temple, visitors can see the rangeland and jungle of eastern Belize, the lowlands of Guatemala to the west, and the impressive Maya Mountains to the south.

The Maya were predominant in three area's; the northern area which is the Yucatan Peninsula, the central area which is the Peeten area and the western area which are the lowlands bordering to Belize.

The Mayflower Bocawina National Park is located in the Stann Creek District at the base of the Maya Mountains, with over 7000 acres of pristine lowland broadleaf forest, waterfalls and evidence of an ancient Mayan City.