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Piedras Negras

17 10'0 "N 91 15'45" W / 17.16667, -91.2625

Piedras Negras Throne 1

Piedras Negras is the largest archaeological sites Mayan located along the river Usumacinta in Guatemala. Located forty kilometers downstream of Yaxchilan , it is part of the Great Park's archaeological department of Petn. It takes its current name Spanish black stones in the river nearby. His Mayan name, which was unknown until recently, was "Yocib (" Input "). By studying the inscriptions of Piedras Negras that Tatiana Proskouriakoff laid the foundation for deciphering Maya writing.

Summary

1 History
2 The site
3 Bibliography
- 3.1 Articles Related
- 3.2 Links to external

History

Active from the Preclassic, Piedras Negras has had its ups and downs. A listing of Altar 1 traces its founding to a mythical time in the long account which corresponds to 4691 BC. BC, that is to say, before the start of the current era as the Maya. Around 460, the ruler of Yaxchilan seems to have caught it from Piedras Negras, which we know the exact name and, in default of better, called Sovereign A.

The site

The site occupies a gently sloping plateau. The buildings are not facing the River. The various monuments are grouped along the slopes of small valleys, rather than at the top of the hills, as was the case at Yaxchilan.

Its ruins are as big as those in Tikal , but much less visited by tourists. Piedras Negras joined Palenque and Copan to the delicacy of the path, overflowing its magnificent wall panels of figures and glyphs.

Piedras Negras buildings were open to the outside, even aired, a drastically different from the conservative tradition of Peten. There are only few buildings at Piedras Negras that reflect the architectural style of the Peten: with a plan that inserts a tiny room under a solid roof with a ridge.

On this Classic Maya site, famous for its carved monuments that specialists dcodrent for the first time the glyph meaning "to power." A breakthrough that revealed that the Maya glyphs preserved the memory of actual historical events.