Papers by Edgar O. Suyuc Ley
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2017
Ancient Mesoamerica
LiDAR coverage of a large contiguous area within the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin (MCKB) of north... more LiDAR coverage of a large contiguous area within the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin (MCKB) of northern Guatemala has identified a concentration of Preclassic Maya sites (ca. 1000 b.c.–a.d. 150) connected by causeways, forming a web of implied social, political, and economic interactions. This article is an introduction to one of the largest, contiguous, regional LiDAR studies published to date in the Maya Lowlands. More than 775 ancient Maya settlements are identified within the MCKB, and 189 more in the surrounding karstic ridge, which we condensed into 417 ancient cities, towns, and villages of at least six preliminary tiers based on surface area, volumetrics, and architectural configurations. Many tiered sites date to the Middle and Late Preclassic periods, as determined by archaeological testing, and volumetrics of contemporaneously constructed and/or occupied architecture with similar morphological characteristics. Monumental architecture, consistent architectural formats, specif...
XIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2005
XX Simposio de …, 2007
Hansen, Richard D., Edgar Suyuc Ley, Carlos Morales Aguilar, Thomas P. Schreiner, Abel Morales Ló... more Hansen, Richard D., Edgar Suyuc Ley, Carlos Morales Aguilar, Thomas P. Schreiner, Abel Morales López, Enrique Hernández y Douglas Mauricio 2007 La Cuenca Mirador: Avances de la investigación y conservación del Estado Kan en los periodos Preclásicos y Clásicos. En XX Simposio ...
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Papers by Edgar O. Suyuc Ley