Sentences with phrase «build ceremonial sites»

An ancient melting pot of diverse hunter - gatherers uniting to build ceremonial sites may have been the start of big Maya cities

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At the height of its cultural heyday, 12 stone masonry «great houses» and other structures were built there, along with a network of ceremonial roads linking Chaco with other Pueblo sites in the Southwest.

The first large - scale constructions were built, including settlement towers and walls (for example, Jericho) and ceremonial sites (such as Stonehenge).

In the classic period, the crowning period for the Mayan Civilization, the enormous sites of Caracol and El Pilar rose out of the forest and ceremonial centres like Xunantunich built lovely temples and pyramids.

In addition to serving as a ceremonial site, the Kukulkan pyramid is perfectly symmetrical and was built to serve as a calendar and indicator of the seasons based off of the solar system.

The major buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include monuments such as the Old Fort, built on the site of an earlier Portuguese church; the house of wonder, a large ceremonial palace built by Sultan Barghash; and the Old Dispensary.

Xunantunich was a major ceremonial site, built on a natural limestone ridge during the Classic Period.

The descendants of the ancient Maya that built the impressive pyramids, palaces, and ceremonial sites that dot the Belizean landscape, the Maya in Belize speak three different dialects: Kekchi (various spellings), Mopan, and the increasingly rare Yucatec.