Acanmul
Acanmul is a Mayan ruin site in Mexico . It is located on the Yucatán peninsula in the state of Campeche , around 25 kilometers north of the state's capital . The importance of Acanmul is based, among other things, on the fact that the entire immediate region is only little known archaeologically and mostly very small sites have been described there.
The first, but only brief, scientific description comes from Harry ED Pollock . Since 2000, excavations and analyzes have been carried out under the direction of Heber Ojeda and Joseph Ball, which were stopped after a few years.
At the center of attention is a two-story building that is usually referred to as a palace based on its presumed purpose. It comes from the late classical period and has been changed and expanded several times through overbuilding. The building stands on a very large, wide and high terrace that takes up almost the entire width of the staircase, it consists of a series of rooms at the level of this terrace, on the south side and on the previously unexposed north side, between which stairs to one above one massive core built second floor lead. A vertical outer wall can be seen in individual places behind the ground-level rooms: in an earlier construction phase, the second floor seems to have rested on a block of wall with vertical walls, to which the rooms described were later placed in front. In the middle of the building, the massive structure protrudes far and is executed in steps, the wide staircase leading up there gives the (incorrect) impression of a pyramid . The second floor consists of three separate buildings with a number of rooms.
To the right of the platform on which the palace building stands, there are smaller constructions, also with two floors, with the second floor corresponding to the surface of the described platform. The room directly adjoining the platform was later changed: a wall to the rear room was drawn in, which only leaves a low passage. With this change in use, a sweat bath was set up.
Immediately adjacent is a so-called C-shaped building in an unusual construction with well-processed cladding stones. Acanmul also has a ball court and several unexposed pyramids.
The site is not officially open to visitors and (2010) partly overgrown.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry ED Pollock : The Puuc. An architectural survey of the hill country of Yucatan and northern Campeche, Mexico . Peabody Museums of Archeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Mass. 1980, ISBN 0-87365-693-8 , pp. 537-541.
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Coordinates: 19 ° 54 ′ 13 ″ N , 90 ° 19 ′ 32 ″ W.