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ID: 7441519
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7441519
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Amelia, La (deserted settlement)  Amelia, La (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 16 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 16.5160  decimal degrees
Long: 090 26 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -90.4400  decimal degrees

Note: Pre-Columbian Mayan site near Itzan, located in the lower Pasión River area. It formed a polity in the Late Classic Period (AD 600 to 830), and was involved in the war between Tikal and Calakmul, until the region finally collapsed around 830, being one of first of the Classic sites in this area to be abandoned. It is best known as the site of the "Group of the Hieroglyphic Stairway." Contains hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Names:
Amelia, La (preferred,C,V,index)
La Amelia (C,V,display)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Guatemala (nation)  ........  Guatemala (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Petén (department)  ............  Petén (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Amelia, La (deserted settlement)  ................  Amelia, La (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
ancient site (C)
inhabited place (H)  ............  collapsed around 830
political entity (H)  ............  from 600 to 830
Maya (Mayan) (H)
Pre-Columbian (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Amelia, La..........  [VP]
.......................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
La Amelia..........  [NRW Preferred, VP Preferred]
....................  Foias, La Amelia Archaeological Project (1997)
....................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 16 May 2011
....................  Ortiz de León, Estudio del Desarrollo de Una Tradición (2004) accessed 16 May 2011
....................  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) accessed 3 May 2016
Subject: .....  [NRW, VP]
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 11 May 2011
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Ortiz de León, Estudio del Desarrollo de Una Tradición (2004) accessed 16 May 2011
..........  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) "La Amelia", accessed 3 May 2016

 

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