Sentences with phrase «early classic period»

In the past scholars believe that Maya civilization was not fully established until about A.D. 300, at the start of the Early Classic Period.

Archaeologists estimate that over 46000 people lived in La Milpa in its heyday in the Early Classic Period.

Chichen Itza was founded in the Early Classic period of 495 AD and became an important Mayan city around 600 AD.

It is not until the early classic period that the site further and the main buildings with governmental function were raised.

It was first used by the Maya during the Early Classic period and continued to be used until the Late to Terminal Classic period.

The site's excavators believe that during the Early Classic period, the economy of Marco Gonzalez was based upon exploitation of the vast marine resources which the Caribbean provides.

One of these carved stelae is dated to the Early Classic Period, an otherwise non-existent date in Southern Belize, and a rare date for stelae in all the Maya area.

Much the same is true of the Early Classic period which yields evidence of occupation at other sites, Laguna Francos and Yalamha, on the island.

Located in the heart of the Belizean rainforest, this cave was a sacred place to the prehistoric Maya of Belize, who first began to use the entrance during the early classic period (300 - 600 A.D.).

Uxbenka dates back to the early Classic Period, long before the existence of other Maya city - states in southern Belize, and its name means «Ancient One» to reflect its age.

Seven carved stelae, plus 13 uncarved stelae were found at Uxbenka, with one carved stelae dating back to the early Classic Period.

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The period between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s was a high point for classic muscle - car performance.

An early Classic - period (460 — 480 AD) Mayan tomb from the site in Rio Azul had vessels with the Maya glyph for it on them with residue of a chocolate drink, suggests the Maya were drinking chocolate around 400 AD.

For its big screen reboot of the classic 60s spy series, Warner Brothers is hoping Guy Ritchie can replicate the success of their earlier Sherlock Holmes adaptations, again favouring witty banter and period detail over the material's more action - oriented elements...

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The Cahal Pech site was first occupied in 1200 BC (Early Middle Preclassic Period) and abandoned in 900 AD (Classic Period).

These are further divided into smaller periods such as the «Early Classic».

What archaeologists can surmise is that this cave was used between the Early Classic (200 - 600 AD) to the Late Classic (600 - 900 AD) periods of time.

Continuing to grow, it became the region's capital at the end of the Late Classic and beginning of the early Terminal Classic periods.

Objects found in the Cave are from the Early Classic through late Classic Periods.

There were some of his earliest works — reportage of soldiers resting away from the battlefields of World War I. Also from this first great period of photographing were classics such as» Circus, Budapest» 1920 and the «Blind Musician» 1921.

«The DMA was one of the first American museums to acquire a classic period work by Jackson Pollock, and we are excited to build on this legacy at the DMA with the acquisition of this early work that sheds new light on an iconic artist,» said Agustín Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director of the DMA.

Joyce explores some of the classic tropes of early modernism, autonomous form, light as material, and the vertiginous and optimistic rhetoric of colour put forward in manifestos by artists and composers in the modernist period.