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ID: 7441521
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7441521
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of La Corona (deserted settlement)  La Corona (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 16 30 20 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 16.5050  decimal degrees
Long: 090 22 48 W  degrees minutes   Long: -90.3800  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient site of Mayan city discovered in 1996 and later revealed to be the mysterious "Site Q." In the 1960s, looted artifacts appeared on the art market when Peter Mathews, then a Yale graduate student, dubbed it "Site Q (Q for "que?," meaning "what?" in Spanish). Later, these artifacts were linked to those found at La Corona.

Names:
La Corona (preferred,C,V,display,S)
Site Q (H,V)

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 La Corona (deserted settlement)  ................  La Corona (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)  ............  discovered in 1996
ruins (C)
inhabited place (H)
city (H)  ............  ca. 670
Maya (Mayan) (H)

Sources and Contributors:
La Corona..........  [NRW Preferred, VP Preferred]
....................  Katz, Long-Sought Maya City Found in Guatemala, National Geographic News (2006) accessed 20 September 2011
....................  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) accessed 3 May 2016
Site Q..........  [VP]
.................  Katz, Long-Sought Maya City Found in Guatemala, National Geographic News (2006)
Subject: .....  [NRW, VP]
..................  Katz, Long-Sought Maya City Found in Guatemala, National Geographic News (2006) accessed 17 May 2011
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Katz, Long-Sought Maya City Found in Guatemala, National Geographic News (2006) accessed 17 May 2011
..........  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) "La Corona", accessed 3 May 2016

 

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