Formative-Period Architecture at the Site of Yarumela, Central Honduras
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Latin American Antiquity
- Vol. 5 (1) , 70-87
- https://doi.org/10.2307/971903
Abstract
During the Formative period (ca. 1000 B.C.-A.D. 250) at the site of Yarumela in central Honduras, an indigenous society developed that was constructing monumental architecture well before 400 B.C. Experimentation with new building materials and techniques reached a peak ca. A.D. 200 just prior to the site's abandonment, by which time religious temples and elite residences had undergone a transition from simple pole-and-thatch structures to more complex adobe and stone constructions. Overall labor investment in monumental architecture may, on the other hand, actually have declined during this same period.Keywords
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