Evidence of Early Teotihucan-Lowland Maya Contact at Altun Ha

1 October 1971

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity

Vol. 36 (4) , 455-460
https://doi.org/10.2307/278465

Abstract

Discovery of a typical Miccaotli phase offering at Altun Ha, British Honduras (Belize) indicates contact between Teotihuacan and the central Maya lowlands in the second century A.D., 2.5 to 3 centuries earlier than previously recognized.

Keywords

LOWLANDS
ALTUN HA
EARLIER THAN
MICCAOTLI PHASE
CENTURIES EARLIER
THAN PREVIOUSLY
INDICATES CONTACT
CENTRAL MAYA

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