Book
Excavations in the Danta Complex at El Mirador, Peten, Guatemala
New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University • (60) • Published In 1989 • Pages: viii, 113
By: Howell, Wayne K..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Howell reports on test excavations at the great raised eastern portion of the Dante complex site at El Mirador, Petén, Guatemala. The ruins of El Mirador were only discovered in 1926 and were not formally investigated until1962. The western sector of El Mirador is dominated by the Tigre pyramid (see Hansen 1990, document no. 11). The Dante complex consists of two immense basal platforms (72.000 sq. meters).which support two two-tiered pyramid-temples (the highest rising to 70 meters), several large public plazas, and around 50 large and small structures. All of the major structures appear to be from the Late Preclassic. The overall dimensions of the sire rival any Mayan site of any period. Howell reports on each of 30 test excavations at 12 structures, and on the recovered artifacts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Ceramic technology
- Masonry
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Archaeological inventories
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Preclassic Maya
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Maya Area
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1982 (El Mirador Project)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2400-1820 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- El Mirador, Petén, Guatemala
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Wayne K. Howell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-113)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities