El Tortuguero
El Tortuguero (often just called Tortuguero ) is a Mayan archaeological site from the late Classical period in the Mexican state of Tabasco . The site was described by archaeologists in the 1920s, but then fell victim to looters and the establishment of a limestone quarry for a nearby cement factory, so that it is largely destroyed today.
Monument 6 of Tortuguero, which is now in the Museo Carlos Pellicer Camára in Villahermosa , Tabasco, became the starting point for speculations about a possible end of the world on December 21, 2012 (see Mayan calendar ).
literature
- Sven Gronemeyer: Tortuguero, Tabasco, Mexico: History of a classical Mayan city, represented by its inscriptions (PDF; 5.6 MB). Master's thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Institute for Ancient American Studies and Ethnology (IAK), 2004
- Sven Gronemeyer, Barbara MacLeod: What Could Happen in 2012: A Re-Analysis of the 13-Bak'tun Prophecy on Tortuguero Monument 6 (PDF; 9.9 MB), Wayeb Notes, No. 34, 2010, ISSN 1379-8286
- Marc Zender, Stanley Guenter: Three Kings of Late Classic Tortuguero (PDF online facsimile; 299 kB). In: PARI Newsletter , Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, San Francisco 2000, ISSN 1531-5398 , pp. 6-8
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marc Zender, Stanley Guenter: Three Kings of Late Classic Tortuguero (PDF online facsimile; 299 kB). In: PARI Newsletter , Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, San Francisco 2000, ISSN 1531-5398 , p. 6.
- ↑ Sven Gronemeyer: Tortuguero, Tabasco, Mexico: History of a classical Mayan city, represented by its inscriptions (PDF; 5.6 MB). Master's thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Institute for Ancient American Studies and Ethnology (IAK), 2004, p. 8.
- ↑ Sven Gronemeyer, Barbara MacLeod: What Could Happen in 2012: A Re-Analysis of the 13-Bak'tun Prophecy on Tortuguero Monument 6 (PDF; 9.9 MB), Wayeb Notes, No. 34, 2010, ISSN 1379- 8286 .
Coordinates: 17 ° 41 ′ 13.2 " N , 92 ° 34 ′ 4.8" W.