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ID: 7030304
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7030304
Record Type:
administrative
Tak'alik Ab'aj (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 36 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 091 46 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -91.7660
decimal degrees
Note:
Maya ceremonial site dating to 1st century CE. Was a pre-Columbian site. Contains hieroglyphic inscriptions.
Names:
Tak'alik Ab'aj
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Takalik Abaj
(
C
,
V
)
............
order of words changed in 2004
Agaj Takalik
(
C
,
V
)
San Isidro Piedra Parada
(
C
,
V
)
Abaj Takalik
(
H
,
V
)
............
meaning "standing stones"
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Guatemala
(nation) (
P
)
............
Retalhuleu
(department) (
P
)
................
Tak'alik Ab'aj
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
historic site (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
ceremonial site (
H
)
city (
H
)
Maya (Mayan) (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Abaj Takalik..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004)
accessed 28 April 2004
Agaj Takalik..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
335
San Isidro Piedra Parada..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
Klassischen Maya (2016-)
accessed 25 August 2016
Takalik Abaj..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Tarpy, Standing Stones, National Geographic (2001)
Tak'alik Ab'aj..........
[
NRW Preferred
,
VP
]
.............................
Klassischen Maya (2016-)
accessed 25 August 2016
.............................
Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-)
.............................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
Subject:
.....
[
NRW
,
VP
]
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2003-2004)
accessed 28 April 2004
..................
Tarpy, Standing Stones, National Geographic (2001)
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
335
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-)
"Takalik Abaj", accessed 10 May 2016
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