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ID: 1099685
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1099685
Record Type:
administrative
Altar de Sacrificios (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 16 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 16.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 090 32 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -90.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the bank of the Pasión River. It ws a Mayan sacred site, consisting of residential, religious, and palatial mounds. Altar de Sacrificios is an ancient Maya site in Guatemala with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
Names:
Altar de Sacrificios
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Altar de Los Sacrificios
(
C
,
V
)
Altar de Sacrificies
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Guatemala
(nation) (
P
)
............
Petén
(department) (
P
)
................
Altar de Sacrificios
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
ancient site (
C
)
ruins (
C
)
sacred site (
H
)
inhabited place (
H
)
............
ca. 9th century BCE to 9th century CE
Maya (Mayan) (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Altar de Los Sacrificios..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.........................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.........................................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-6
Altar de Sacrificies..........
[
VP
]
...................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 3 August 2010
Altar de Sacrificios..........
[
NRW Preferred
,
VP
]
...................................
Evans and Webster, Archaeology of Ancient Mexico (2001)
17
...................................
Klassischen Maya (2016-)
accessed 10 August 2016
...................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 3 August 2010
...................................
Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-)
accessed 3 May 2016
Subject:
.....
[
NRW
,
VP
]
..................
Evans and Webster, Archaeology of Ancient Mexico (2001)
17
..................
Klassischen Maya (2016-)
accessed 10 August 2016
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-6
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Evans and Webster, Archaeology of Ancient Mexico (2001)
17-18
..........
Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-)
"Altar de Sacrificios", accessed 3 May 2016
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