Petexbatún
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| Petexbatún Lake | |
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| Location | Petén |
| Primary inflows | Petexbatún |
| Primary outflows | Petexbatún |
| Basin countries | Guatemala |
Petexbatún is a small lake that is formed by the river with the same name, that splits from La Pasion river in Sayaxché, located in the south area of the Guatemalan department of Petén.
Archaeologists gave the name of Petexbatún State to a group of cities during the Classic period of the Maya Civilization that include Seibal, Itzán, Dos Pilas, Aguateca, Cancuén, Tamarindito, Punta de Chimino, and Nacimiento, and others. This State, was the first to be abandoned in the Late Classic, when the Maya Collapse occurred in a South to north pattern, although Seibal, was reoccupied by the Putún Maya or Toltec groups, according to the style of the Stelas in this period, the experts agree that they were not Classic Maya. The archaeological findings here have given a lot of information about the Collapse of the Classic Maya Civilization.
[edit] References
- Demarest, Arthur A. (2006). The Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Maya Collapse, Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology series, vol. 1. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0-8265-1520-9. OCLC 63178772.
- Houston, Stephen D. (1993). Hieroglyphs and History at Dos Pilas: Dynastic Politics of the Classic Maya. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73855-2. OCLC 25507968.
