Kabah — Kabah,Yucatan, Mexiko: Fassade des zweiten Stockwerks

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Kabah

Mexico

Datedc. 700–1100 CE

Photo HJPD · CC BY 3.0Source file on Wikimedia Commons

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Overview

About this site

Overview

Kabah is an other / unclassified in Mexico. It lies at 20.2484° N, 89.6473° W.

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Where it sits in time

The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.

The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.

700–1100 CEHow this date was established: Stated by the sourceEstimated

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Kabah

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Context

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Mesoamerica's civilisations raised carved stone monuments. Maya stelae are tall sculpted stone shafts, often paired with low circular stones called altars, though their actual function is uncertain. Many stelae are carved in low relief, though plain ones are found throughout the Maya region. The sculpting of these monuments spread across the Maya area in the Classic Period (about 250 to 900 CE), and the pairing of sculpted stela and altar is a hallmark of Classic Maya civilisation. The earliest dated stela found in place in the Maya lowlands comes from Tikal in Guatemala, and during the Classic Period almost every Maya kingdom in the southern lowlands raised stelae in its ceremonial centre. The regional background, “Mesoamerican stelae and carved stone”, is given below.

Dating

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The site is dated 700 CE to 1100 CE by a published source statement. The area was inhabited from the mid-3rd century BCE, and most of the architecture now visible was built between the 7th and 11th centuries CE.

Published age estimates for the site include 700 CE to 1100 CE (published source). The mainstream range is 700 CE to 1100 CE.