{"id":497593,"date":"2024-01-26T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=497593"},"modified":"2024-01-26T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:53:36","slug":"mayan-city-emerges-from-a-forest-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/mayan-city-emerges-from-a-forest-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayan city emerges from a forest in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_497533\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-497533 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/RPF-nota-ruina-maia-2023-08-site-1104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/RPF-nota-ruina-maia-2023-08-site-1104.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/RPF-nota-ruina-maia-2023-08-site-1104-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/RPF-nota-ruina-maia-2023-08-site-1104-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/RPF-nota-ruina-maia-2023-08-site-1104-120x68.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Ivan \u1e60prajc\u2009\/\u2009Inah<\/span>Remnants of an ancient 500,000 m<sup>2<\/sup> city occupied between 250 AD and 1,000 AD<span class=\"media-credits\">Ivan \u1e60prajc\u2009\/\u2009Inah<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mexican and Slovenian researchers located an ancient Mayan city, including the ruins of stone pyramids up to 15 meters (m) high, buildings, squares, and an acropolis (an elevated rectangular structure usually used by the elite), in the Balamku ecological reserve in southeastern Mexico. Because of its numerous cylindrical stone columns, the archaeological site earned the name Ocomt\u00fan, which means \u201cstone column\u201d in Yucatec Mayan. It may have been an important urban settlement during the Classical Period (250 AD\u20131000 AD). A group led by Ivan \u0160prajc, an archaeologist from the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, traveled more than 60 kilometers through dense forest to reach the ruins, which they located using a remote sensing technique known as LiDAR (light detection and ranging), which can identify structures hidden in the forest. \u201cThe biggest surprise turned out to be the site located on a &#8216;peninsula&#8217; on high ground, surrounded by extensive wetlands. Its monumental nucleus covers more than 50 hectares and has various large buildings,\u201d \u0160prajc said in a statement issued by Mexico&#8217;s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ancient Mayan city found in ecological reserve in southeastern Mexico","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[202,241],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-497593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-archaeology","tag-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497596,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497593\/revisions\/497596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497593"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=497593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}