El Mirador

El Mirador
	La Danta at El Mirador
	Shown within Mesoamerica
Location	Petén Department, Guatemala
Region	Petén Department
Coordinates	17°45′18″N 89°55′14″W / 17.75500°N 89.92056°W
History
Founded	Middle Preclassic
Periods	Middle Preclassic to Terminal Classic
Cultures	Maya civilization
Site notes
Archaeologists	Ian Graham, Bruce H. Dahlin, Ray T. Matheny, Carlos Morales-Aguilar
Architecture
Architectural styles	Early Maya, Central Peten

17°45′18″N 89°55′14″W / 17.75500°N 89.92056°W / 17.75500; -89.92056

El Mirador (which translates as "the lookout", "the viewpoint", or "the belvedere") is a large pre-Columbian Middle and Late Preclassic (1000 BC – 250 AD) Maya settlement, located in the north of the modern department of El Petén, Guatemala. It is part of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin of northern Guatemala.^[1]

^ [1]Hansen, R., Morales-Aguilar, C., Thompson, J., Ensley, R., Hernández, E., Schreiner, T., . . . Martínez, G. (2022). LiDAR analyses in the contiguous Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala: An introduction to new perspectives on regional early Maya socioeconomic and political organization. Ancient Mesoamerica, 1–40. doi:10.1017/S0956536122000244

[Hansen2022-1] [1]Hansen, R., Morales-Aguilar, C., Thompson, J., Ensley, R., Hernández, E., Schreiner, T., . . . Martínez, G. (2022). LiDAR analyses in the contiguous Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala: An introduction to new perspectives on regional early Maya socioeconomic and political organization. Ancient Mesoamerica, 1–40. doi:10.1017/S0956536122000244

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