Caracol

Caracol ili El Caracol je naziv za veliko arheološko nalazište majanske civilizacije, smješteno u suvremenom Belizeu u distriktu Cayo. Nalazi se oko 40 km južno od Xunantunicha i grada San Ignacio Cayo, odnosno na 460 m nadmorske visine i padinama Majanskih planina. Caracol je bio najvažnije političko središte Ravničarskih Maja za vrijeme Klasičnog perioda u Belizeu. Oko godine 650. gradsko područje Caracola se prostiralo u radijusu od oko 10 km od središta. Pokrivalo je daleko veću površinu nego suvremeni Belize City (najveći grad u Belizeu) i imalo dva puta više stanovnika.

Usprkos svoje veličine, Caracol je otkriven tek 1937. godine.

Izvori

Awe, Jaime; Cassandra Bill, Mark Campbell, and David Cheetham (1990). "Early Middle Formative Occupation in the Central Maya Lowlands: Recent Evidence from Cahal Pech, Belize" (PDF online reproduction). Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 1: 1–5. ISSN 0965-9315. 

Beetz, Carl P.; and Linton Satterthwaite (1981). The Monuments and Inscriptions of Caracol, Belize, Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

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id="CITEREFChase, Diane Z.1996">Chase, Diane Z. (1996), "Changing Perspectives on Caracol, Belize: Long-Term Archaeological Research and the Northeast Sector Settlement Program", in Juan Luis Bonor (ed.), Proceedings of the First International Symposium on the Maya, Belmopan: Department of Archaeology

Kelly, Joyce (1996). An Archaeological Guide to Northern Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Schele, Linda; and David Freidel (1990). A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya, Reprint, New York: Harper Perennial.

Sharer, Robert J. (1994). The Ancient Maya, 5th, fully revised, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

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