Preclassic Maya architecture at Cuello, Belize
essay 1988 Gerhardt, Juliette Cartwright

Preclassic MayaMiddle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
According to Gerhardt the '…importance of the Cuello site lies in its continuous sequence of Preclassic or Formative occupation represented in Platform 34, which dates back into the Early Preclassic. Ten of the thirty-seven structures exposed in the ...

The community of Cuello
essay 1991 Gerhardt, Juliette Cartwright & Hammond, Norman

Preclassic MayaMiddle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a report on the excavation of the main trenches at Cuello, which reveal an earlier domestic and later ceremonial period of architectural development. The excavations uncovered altogether 19 house platforms, nine ancillary domestic platforms, ...

Ritual and ideology
essay 1991 Robin, Cynthia et al.

Preclassic MayaMiddle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
In this three-part report, the authors examine burial customs, dedicatory caches and iconography at the Cuello site. Robin and Hammond examine the funerary patterns in the 142 burials at Cuello between the 1200 B.C.-250 A.D., and consider the social,...