About: Takalik Abaj

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Pre-Columbian archaeological site in Guatemala

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  • archäologischer Fundplatz in Guatemala (de)
  • グアテマラの遺跡 (ja)
  • nederzetting in Guatemala (nl)
  • Sitio arqueológico en Retalhuleu, Guatemala (es)
  • pre-Columbian archaeological site in Guatemala (en)
  • אתר ארכאולוגי של האולמקים והמאיה בגואטמלה שהוא אתר מורשת עולמית. (iw)
  • 선콜럼버스 시대의 고고학 유적지 (ko)
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  • left (en)
  • right (en)
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  • A low, wide structure with stepped sides, with the top covered in low grass. A dense treeline forms the backdrop to the structure. The right hand side of the structure has several standing stones before it, with a local guide standing by one of them. (en)
  • A cracked ceramic head with open mouth and closed eyes. The left ear sports an earplug. The forehead is heightened and flattened at the top. (en)
  • An irregular disc-shaped stone lying flat, with some damage to the left hand side. A relief sculpture of a skull is carved onto the nearside rim. (en)
  • A thick, flat stone set into a wide step, it has a dark hollow underneath with two short stone legs supporting the altar. Two large, smoothly rounded cobbles are set into the step below the altar. (en)
  • A low stairway rising to the left from a flat grassy area. The top of the stairway is blocked by thick tropical vegetation. (en)
  • An area of excavation under a corrugated roof supported by wooden poles. The foreground shows an even cobbled pavement running diagonally from left front to right back, where it disappears into a vertical wall of partially excavated rubble and soil. (en)
  • A finely carved sculpture in the form of a stylised bat's head with prominent nose seen from the front right. Decorations spiral outwards from above the eye and to the side of the mouth. (en)
  • An eroded sculpture carved in relief onto a boulder. It shows a human figure from the front, squatting with the legs splayed. Its elbows are doubled and under each arm it grips a barely distinguishable animal. The figure's face is mostly eroded away but hollows for the eyes and mouth are still visible. The figure wears large ear-spools and a prominent headdress. (en)
  • A smoothly finished boulder carved into the shape of a seated frog or toad, with the head raised to the right and sporting a prominent smile. The eyes, mouth, nostrils and legs are all carved in low relief. The sculpture is set against the stonework base of a structure, behind it at left. (en)
  • Excavated area with a flat dusty area to the left with some rubble and with steeply sloping well-dressed stonework to the right sat on top of a low vertical stonework base. A ramshackle roof protecting the excavations is supported by wooden poles. (en)
  • A relief sculpture of a human bust facing forwards, with sculpted cloth hanging over the chest bearing a criss-cross design. The face has a damaged right cheek and two round earspools decorate the ears. (en)
dbp:archaeologists
  • Miguel Orrego Corzo; Marion Popenoe de Hatch; Christa Schieber de Lavarreda; Claudia Wolley Schwarz (en)
dbp:architecturalStyles
  • Olmec, Early Maya (en)
dbp:built
  • Middle Preclassic (en)
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  • Altar 30, embedded in the access stairway to Terrace 3 (en)
  • Altar 28, bearing the carving of a skull (en)
  • An excavated pavement adjacent to the ballcourt (en)
  • Head from a Postclassic ceramic figurine (en)
  • Monument 68, representing a toad (en)
  • Structure 12 at Takalik Abaj (en)
  • Structure 12, dating to the Early Classic (en)
  • The ballcourt on Terrace 2 in the Central Group, dating to the Middle Preclassic (en)
  • Monument 14, a sculpture of a squatting human figure (en)
dbp:cultures
  • Olmec, Maya (en)
dbp:event
  • Conquered by: (en)
  • Teotihuacan, Kʼicheʼ (en)
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  • Monument 217 and Monument 215 , two parts of the Cargador del Ancestro sculpture (en)
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  • BKB_2203.jpg (en)
  • Monument14TakalikAbaj.jpg (en)
  • Takalik Abaj Monument 215 1.jpg (en)
  • Takalik Abaj Monument 217 5.jpg (en)
  • Takalik Abaj Postclassic figurine head.jpg (en)
  • TakalikAbajAltar28.jpg (en)
  • TakalikAbajAltarPic2.jpg (en)
  • TakalikAbajBallcourtp2.jpg (en)
  • TakalikAbajPavement.jpg (en)
  • ESTRUCTURA_12_MUSEO_AL_AIRE_LIBRE_ESQUINA_NOROESTE_-TAKALIK_ABAJ.jpg (en)
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  • 300 (xsd:integer)
dbp:location
  • El Asintal, Retalhuleu Department, (en)
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  • Location within Mesoamerica##Location within Guatemala (en)
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  • 300 (xsd:integer)
dbp:mapType
  • Mesoamerica # Guatemala (en)
dbp:name
  • Takalik Abaj (en)
dbp:nativeName
  • Kooja (en)
dbp:notes
  • Responsible body: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes / Proyecto Nacional Tak'alik Ab'aj (en)
dbp:precolumbian
  • yes (en)
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  • Takalik Abaj (en)
  • Takalik Abaj (cs)
  • Takalik Abaj (ca)
  • Takalik Abaj (de)
  • Takalik Abaj (eo)
  • Takalik Abaj (es)
  • Takalik Abaj (fr)
  • Takalik Abaj (in)
  • Takalik Abaj (it)
  • アバフ・タカリク (ja)
  • Takalik Abaj (pt)
  • Такалік-Абахо (uk)
  • Abaj Takalik (sv)
  • Такалик-Абах (ru)
  • 阿巴赫·塔卡利克 (zh)
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