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Tamarindito, the Glossary

Tamarindito is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization located along an escarpment in the Petén department of Guatemala.^[1]

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Maya Classic Period

Aguateca

Aguateca is a Maya site located in northern Guatemala's Petexbatun Basin, in the department of Petén. Tamarindito and Aguateca are former populated places in Guatemala, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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Ajaw

Ajaw or Ahau ('Lord') is a pre-Columbian Maya political title attested from epigraphic inscriptions.

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Altar de Sacrificios

Altar de Sacrificios is a ceremonial center and archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, situated near the confluence of the Pasión and Salinas Rivers (where they combine to form the Usumacinta River), in the present-day department of Petén, Guatemala. Tamarindito and Altar de Sacrificios are former populated places in Guatemala, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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Ancient Maya art

Ancient Maya art comprises the visual arts of the Maya civilization, an eastern and south-eastern Mesoamerican culture made up of a great number of small kingdoms in present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. Tamarindito and Ancient Maya art are Maya Classic Period.

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Arroyo de Piedra

Arroyo de Piedra is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in Guatemala located approximately 2-3 km east/northeast of Dos Pilas and 3 km west of Tamarindito. Tamarindito and Arroyo de Piedra are archaeological sites in Guatemala, former populated places in Guatemala, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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Cartography

Cartography (from χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps.

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Chanal Balam

Chanal Balam was the only known king of Maya city-state Tamarindito in Guatemala.

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Chichen Itza

Chichén Itzá, Chichén Itzá, often with the emphasis reversed in English to; from Chiʼchʼèen Ìitshaʼ "at the mouth of the well of the Itza people" (often spelled Chichen Itza in English and traditional Yucatec Maya) was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period. Tamarindito and Chichen Itza are Maya Classic Period and Maya sites.

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Chultun

A chultún (or chultun, plural: chultunob' or chultúns) is a bottle-shaped underground storage chamber built by the pre-Columbian Maya in southern Mesoamerica.

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Council of Ministers of Guatemala

The Council of Ministers of Guatemala governs the country through the executive branch of Guatemala.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Departments of Guatemala

The Republic of Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (Spanish: departamentos) which in turn are divided into 340 municipalities.

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Dolomite (mineral)

Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite (see Dolomite (rock)).

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Dos Pilas

Dos Pilas is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in what is now the department of Petén, Guatemala. Tamarindito and Dos Pilas are archaeological sites in Guatemala, former populated places in Guatemala, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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Eccentric flint

An eccentric flint is an elite chipped artifact of an often irregular ('eccentric') shape produced by the Classic Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.

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Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Guatemala City

Guatemala City (Ciudad de Guatemala), known nationally also as Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala.

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Guatemalan Civil War

The Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Height above mean sea level

Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.

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Ian Graham

Ian James Alastair Graham OBE (12 November 1923 – 1 August 2017) was a British Mayanist whose explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize helped establish the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions published by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University.

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Instituto de Antropología e Historia

The Instituto de Antropología e Historia (IDAEH, Institute of Anthropology and History) is the national institute in Guatemala responsible for the protection and maintenance of Guatemala's historical and archaeological sites, monuments, artefacts, and other aspects of the nation's cultural heritage.

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Itzan

Itzan is a Maya archaeological site located in the municipality of La Libertad in the Petén Department of Guatemala. Tamarindito and Itzan are former populated places in Guatemala, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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Jade use in Mesoamerica

The use of jade in Mesoamerica for symbolic and ideological ritual was highly influenced by its rarity and value among pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Olmec, the Maya, and the various groups in the Valley of Mexico.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Machaquila

Machaquila (or Machaquilá, using Spanish orthography) is a major ruined city of the Maya civilization in what is now the El Peten department of Guatemala. Tamarindito and Machaquila are archaeological sites in Guatemala, former populated places in Guatemala, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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Maya civilization

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period. Tamarindito and Maya civilization are Maya sites.

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Maya script

Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered.

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Merle Greene Robertson

Merle Greene Robertson (August 30, 1913 – April 22, 2011) was an American artist, art historian, archaeologist, lecturer and Mayanist researcher, renowned for her extensive work towards the investigation and preservation of the art, iconography, and writing of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Central America.

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Mesoamerican ballcourt

A Mesoamerican ballcourt (tlachtli) is a large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica for more than 2,700 years to play the Mesoamerican ballgame, particularly the hip-ball version of the ballgame.

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Mesoamerican ballgame

The Mesoamerican ballgame (ōllamalīztli,, pitz) was a sport with ritual associations played since at least 1650 BC by the pre-Columbian people of Ancient Mesoamerica.

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Mesoamerican chronology

Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic; as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and Postcolonial, or the period after independence from Spain (1821–present).

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Obsidian use in Mesoamerica

Obsidian is a naturally formed volcanic glass that was an important part of the material culture of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

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Pasión River

The Pasión River (Río de la Pasión) is a river located in the northern lowlands region of Guatemala.

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Petén Department

Petén (from the itz'a, Noj Petén, 'Great Island') is a department of Guatemala.

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Petexbatún Lake

Petexbatún is a small lake formed by a river of the same name, which is a tributary of the La Pasion river. Tamarindito and Petexbatún Lake are archaeological sites in Guatemala and Maya Classic Period.

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Plug (jewellery)

A plug (sometimes earplug or earspool), in the context of body modification, is a short, cylindrical piece of jewelry commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings.

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Punta de Chimino

Punta de Chimino is a Maya archaeological site in the Petexbatún region of the department of Petén in Guatemala. Tamarindito and Punta de Chimino are archaeological sites in Guatemala, former populated places in Guatemala, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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Sacbe

A sacbe, plural sacbeob (Yucatec Maya: singular sakbej, plural sakbejo'ob), or "white road", is a raised paved road built by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

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Sacrifice in Maya culture

Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving the killing of humans or animals, or bloodletting by members of the community, in rituals superintended by priests.

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Sayaxché

Sayaxché is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala, on the Río La Pasión river.

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Spondylus

Spondylus is a genus of bivalve molluscs, the only genus in the family Spondylidae.

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Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.

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Stele

A stele,From Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai; the plural in English is sometimes stelai based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles.) or occasionally stela (stelas or stelæ) when derived from Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument.

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Stephen D. Houston

Stephen Douglas Houston (born November 11, 1958) is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar, who is particularly renowned for his research into the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

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Stucco

Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.

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Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts.

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Tikal

Tikal (Tik'al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. Tamarindito and Tikal are former populated places in Guatemala, Maya Classic Period, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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Trade in Maya civilization

Trade was a crucial factor in maintaining Maya cities.

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Tres Islas

Tres Islas (Spanish for "Three Islands") is a small pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site north of Cancuen in Petén Department, northern Guatemala. Tamarindito and Tres Islas are archaeological sites in Guatemala, former populated places in Guatemala, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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Uaxactun

Uaxactun (pronounced) is an ancient sacred place of the Maya civilization, located in the Petén Basin region of the Maya lowlands, in the present-day department of Petén, Guatemala. Tamarindito and Uaxactun are archaeological sites in Guatemala, former populated places in Guatemala, Maya Classic Period, Maya sites and Maya sites in Petén Department.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarindito

, Tres Islas, Uaxactun, UNESCO, University Press of Colorado, Vanderbilt University Press, Verlag Anton Saurwein.

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Maya Classic Period

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