City plans symbolizing cosmologies have long been recognized as a defining element of
Mesoamerican civilizations. The origins of formal spatial configurations are thus the key to …

Mesoamerica was the most urbanised landscape of the precolonial Western Hemisphere,
and urban dwellers there shared many cultural commonalities. They also varied significantly …

Public goods are “non-excludable” and “non-rivalrous” resources, including roads, water
management systems, and plazas, as well as “symbolic public goods,” such as religious …

In the 1920s, during the first archaeological excavations at Uaxactún, Petén, Guatemala, an
architectural complex named Group E was interpreted as an ancient Maya astronomical …

Intensified social complexity emerged in some parts of the lowland Maya region during the
Middle Preclassic period (800–300 BC). Though data for Middle Preclassic complexity …

Paleolimnological evidence indicates the ancient Maya transformed terrestrial ecosystems
by felling forest vegetation to construct large civic-ceremonial centers and to expand …

Little is known about Middle Preclassic/Formative lowland Maya belief systems or
ideologies, compared to later periods, but with increasing research at Middle Preclassic …

Nixtun-Ch'ich', on the western edge of Lake Peten Itza in Peten, northern Guatemala,
features an axis urbis and an urban grid dating to the Middle Preclassic period (800–500 …

It is argued that the southern lowland Maya city of Nixtun-Ch'ich'(Petén, Guatemala)
centered a Middle Preclassic (ca. 900/800–400 BCE) primate settlement distribution and …

Early occupation at Nixtun-Ch'ich', on the western edge of Lake Petén Itzá, is dated by two
ceramic complexes, K'as and Chich. These represent the Late and Terminal Early Preclassic …