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Ancient Council Houses in Guatemala Reveal Shift in Maya Governance
A 3D sketchup reconstruction of the structure (council house). Credit: Christina T. Halperin / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that ancient Maya rulers in Guatemala gradually abandoned absolute kingship in favor of shared, consensus-based governance. The discovery of ancient council houses in Guatemala’s Peten region provides the earliest known physical evidence of this political transformation in the Southern Maya Lowland…
Ancient architecture reveals public influence on Maya kingship
New archaeological research at the ancient Maya city of Ucanal in Guatemala suggests that ordinary people may have played a meaningful role in shaping political power, challenging the long-standing view of absolute divine kingship. Excavations led by Dr Christina Halperin of the University of Montreal uncovered a multi-level stone structure known as Structure K-1, dating to the Terminal Classic period, around AD 810 to 1000. The building is beli…
Deep in the jungle of Petén, Guatemala, a team of archaeologists has dug up the remains of a building that changes what we knew about how the ancient Mayans ruled. It is the K-1 Structure of the archaeological site of Ucanal, a construction with columns dating from the Classic Terminal period (approximately between [...]
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