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La Milpa La Milpa
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Investigations Investigations
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Site Plan and Urban Features Site Plan and Urban Features
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Chronology Chronology
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Political History Political History
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Dos Hombres Dos Hombres
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Investigations Investigations
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Site Plan and Urban Features Site Plan and Urban Features
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Chronology Chronology
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Political History Political History
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Chan Chich Chan Chich
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Site Plan and Urban Features Site Plan and Urban Features
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Discussion and Concluding Remarks Discussion and Concluding Remarks
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Abstract
This chapter examines three cities in northwestern Belize: La Milpa, Dos Hombres, and Chan Chich. The biggest city in the area, La Milpa boasts the largest public plaza in the eastern lowlands; Plaza A includes five temple-pyramids, two ball courts, large range buildings, a small acropolis group, and most of the site’s 23 stelae. Dos Hombres is smaller than is La Milpa, but the two cities share important urban features. They each have a pronounced north-south alignment of the monumental architecture, a massive public plaza at the northern end of the site core, an elevated acropolis at the southern end, and a sacbe linking the architecture together. Although a large center during the Late Classic period, Chan Chich arguably had its heyday in the Terminal Preclassic period when the city’s elite buried an early divine king in the Upper Plaza. Centuries later during the Late Classic period, the rulers at the city established Chan Chich’s visible site plan. The key urban features at the city are its massive Main Plaza, its east-west causeways, its immense range building on the southern side of the Main Plaza, and its rare form of attached ball court.
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