INAH archaeologists locate a Post-Classical Mayan village in Mahahual, Quintana Roo

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INAH archaeologists locate a Post-Classical Mayan village in Mahahual, Quintana Roo

Until now little was known about the presence of farming and fishing villages on the eastern coast of the Yucatan peninsula, almost on the Belizean border. Photo: Archaeologist Fernando Cortés, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Quintana Roo.

Translated by: Liz Marie Gangemi

MEXICO CITY.- Amidst the mangrove and the jungle, experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have recorded a Pre-Hispanic settlement dating from the Mayan Post-Classic period (1200-1546 AD), which represents the first of that era detected in the locality on the eastern coast of the Yucatan peninsula.

The ancient village named by the specialists of the INAH Quintana Roo Center, as Mahahual has as a particularity a remarkable proximity to the Caribbean coast, for which, together with the fact that all the structures located at this time are of residential or water supply structures, it is theorized that the fundamental vocations of those who inhabited it were fishing and agriculture.

However, according to archaeologist Fernando Cortés de Brasdefer, a continuation of research work will be carried out at the site to find any indications of elite zones, or ritual or civic-religious areas, because the area prospected in the first stage of the study, was only 1.5 kilometers long by 450 meters wide.

“Up to now the settlement has a heterogenous network form which is a conformation interweaving paths constituted by family estates that gave origin to a large group of highly organized people”.

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