The first known stone architecture in Mesoamerica…

873 BCE to 862 BCE

The first known stone architecture in Mesoamerica is built in the fertile Copán River valley in western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala, in about the ninth century BCE; the region had long been a site of agriculture.

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Copán Copan Honduras View →

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Maya peoples View → Olmec civilization (in Classical Antiquity) View →

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Formative Stage (Americas) View → Younger Subboreal Period View →

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