Structure VII is a 24 meter high public building topped with a three-room Late Classic temple that once had a tall stuccoed roof comb. Incised into the floor of the outermost room of the temple is a patolii game board, a game depicted at several Maya sites such as Xunantunich, Tikal, Palenque, Dzibilchaltun, and Uxmal.
Under the floor of the central passageway was a Late Classic vaulted tomb, dated to 750 AD. The tomb is 3.38 meters long, 1.35 meters wide and 1.65 meters high; it included a male, 25-35 years in age and 1.6 meters tall. Based on cutmarks on the bones, his flesh had been removed prior to burial.
Sources and Further Information
- About.com's Guide to the Maya Civilization
- Calakmul, from Ancient History at About.com
- Nakbe
- Tikal
- Finding Site Q
Carrasco Vargas, Ramon, Veronica A. Vazquez Lopez, and Simon Martin 2009 Daily life of the ancient Maya recorded on murals at Calakmul, Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.
Carrasco Vargas, Ramon, et al. 1999 A Dynastic Tomb from Campeche, Mexico: New Evidence on Jaguar Paw, a Ruler of Calakmul. Latin American Antiquity 10(1):47-58.
Folan, William J. 2001. Calakmul (Campeche, Mexico). pp 88-90 in Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster, eds. Garland Publishing, Inc. New York.
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