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class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/San_Ignacio,_Belize" title="San Ignacio, Belize">San Ignacio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cayo_District" title="Cayo District">Cayo District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Cayo_District" title="Cayo District">Cayo District</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #eee;">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1200 BCE</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Abandoned</th><td class="infobox-data">900 CE</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Periods</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Classic" title="Classic">Classic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cultures</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maya_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Maya people">Maya</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #eee;">Site notes</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Excavation dates</th><td class="infobox-data">1988 - 2000</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Archaeologists</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jaime_Awe" title="Jaime Awe">Jaime Awe</a> National Institute of Archaeology (NICH)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #eee;">Architecture</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Architectural styles</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Classic" title="Classic">Classic</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below">Responsible body: Belize Department of Archaeology</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Cahal Pech</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Maya_civilization" title="Maya civilization">Maya</a> site located near the town of <a href="/wiki/San_Ignacio_Cayo" class="mw-redirect" title="San Ignacio Cayo">San Ignacio</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Cayo_District" title="Cayo District">Cayo District</a> of <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a>. The site was a palatial, hilltop home for an elite <a href="/wiki/Maya_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Maya people">Maya</a> family, and though the most major construction dates to the <a href="/wiki/Maya_Classic_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="Maya Classic Era">Classic</a> period, evidence of continuous habitation has been dated to as far back as 1200 BCE during the Early Middle Formative period (Early Middle <a href="/wiki/Preclassic_Maya" title="Preclassic Maya">Preclassic</a>), making Cahal Pech one of the oldest recognizably <a href="/wiki/Maya_sites" class="mw-redirect" title="Maya sites">Maya sites</a> in Western <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Location">Location</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cahal_Pech&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Location"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The site rests high above the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Macal_River" title="Macal River">Macal River</a> and is strategically located to overlook the confluence of the <a href="/wiki/Macal_River" title="Macal River">Macal River</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mopan_River" title="Mopan River">Mopan River</a>. The site is a collection of 34 structures, with the tallest temple being about 25 meters in height, situated around a central acropolis. The site was abandoned in the 9th century CE for unknown reasons.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archaeology">Archaeology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cahal_Pech&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Archaeology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest pottery in western <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a> is found here. </p> <blockquote> <p>"Emerging information from western <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a> suggests that ceramic-using populations may have been in place as early as ca. 1200 B.C. at Cahal Pech and perhaps elsewhere (Awe 1992; Clark and Cheetham 2002; Garber et al. 2004; Healy and Awe 1995). While these complexes, termed "Cunil" at Cahal Pech and "Kanocha" at <a href="/wiki/Blackman_Eddy" title="Blackman Eddy">Blackman Eddy</a>, remain to be broadly documented across the <a href="/wiki/Belize_River" title="Belize River">Belize River</a> Valley, they are the earliest established ceramic technologies recorded in western <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>The name <i>Cahal Pech</i>, meaning "Place of the Ticks" in the <a href="/wiki/Yucatec_Maya_language" title="Yucatec Maya language">Yucatec Maya language</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was given when the area was used as pasture during the first archaeological studies in the 1950s, led by <a href="/wiki/Linton_Satterthwaite" title="Linton Satterthwaite">Linton Satterthwaite</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Pennsylvania Museum">University of Pennsylvania Museum</a>. It is now an <a href="/w/index.php?title=Archaeological_reserve&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archaeological reserve (page does not exist)">archaeological reserve</a>, and houses a small museum with artifacts from various ongoing excavations. </p><p>The primary excavation of the site began in 1988. Restoration was completed in 2000 under the leadership of Dr. <a href="/wiki/Jaime_Awe" title="Jaime Awe">Jaime Awe</a>, Director of the National Institute of Archaeology (NICH), <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other nearby Maya sites include <a href="/wiki/Chaa_Creek" title="Chaa Creek">Chaa Creek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xunantunich" title="Xunantunich">Xunantunich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baking_Pot" title="Baking Pot">Baking Pot</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lower_Dover" title="Lower Dover">Lower Dover</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cahal_Pech&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_110.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Aerial of Cahal Pech"><img alt="Aerial of Cahal Pech" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_110.jpg/120px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_110.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_110.jpg/180px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_110.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_110.jpg/240px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_110.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Aerial of Cahal Pech</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Belize,_Cahal_Pech_Laslovarga009.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Main courtyard"><img alt="Main courtyard" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Belize%2C_Cahal_Pech_Laslovarga009.JPG/120px-Belize%2C_Cahal_Pech_Laslovarga009.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Belize%2C_Cahal_Pech_Laslovarga009.JPG/180px-Belize%2C_Cahal_Pech_Laslovarga009.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Belize%2C_Cahal_Pech_Laslovarga009.JPG/240px-Belize%2C_Cahal_Pech_Laslovarga009.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Main courtyard</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_107.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Main courtyard"><img alt="Main courtyard" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_107.jpg/120px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_107.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_107.jpg/180px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_107.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_107.jpg/240px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_107.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Main courtyard</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_49.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Main courtyard"><img alt="Main courtyard" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_49.jpg/120px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_49.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_49.jpg/180px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_49.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_49.jpg/240px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_49.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Main courtyard</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_16.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Remains of a ball court"><img alt="Remains of a ball court" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_16.jpg/120px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_16.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_16.jpg/180px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_16.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_16.jpg/240px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_16.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Remains of a ball court</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_43.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Another building"><img alt="Another building" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_43.jpg/120px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_43.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_43.jpg/180px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_43.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_43.jpg/240px-Cahal_Pech_Jul_10_2015_43.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" 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al.</i> (1990)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Awe (2000)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFLohseAweGriffithRosenswig2006" class="citation journal cs1">Lohse, Jon C.; et al. (2006). "Preceramic Occupations in Belize: Updating The Paleoindian and Archaic Record". <i>Latin American Antiquity</i>. <b>17</b> (2): 209–226. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F25063047">10.2307/25063047</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Latin+American+Antiquity&rft.atitle=Preceramic+Occupations+in+Belize%3A+Updating+The+Paleoindian+and+Archaic+Record&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=209-226&rft.date=2006&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F25063047&rft.aulast=Lohse&rft.aufirst=Jon+C.&rft.au=Awe%2C+Jaime&rft.au=Griffith%2C+Cameron&rft.au=Rosenswig%2C+Robert+M.&rft.au=Valdez%2C+Jr.%2C+Fred&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACahal+Pech" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Awe (2006)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Awe (2006)</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cahal_Pech&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-hanging-indents" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAweCassandra_BillMark_CampbellDavid_Cheetham1990" class="citation journal cs1">Awe, Jaime; Cassandra Bill; Mark Campbell; David Cheetham (1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090617094110/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/pia/prevcont/vol1/2.pdf#">"Early Middle Formative Occupation in the Central Maya Lowlands: Recent Evidence from Cahal Pech, Belize"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Papers_from_the_Institute_of_Archaeology" class="mw-redirect" title="Papers from the Institute of Archaeology">Papers from the Institute of Archaeology</a></i>. <b>1</b>. London: <a href="/wiki/UCL_Institute_of_Archaeology" title="UCL Institute of Archaeology">UCL Institute of Archaeology</a>: 1–5. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0965-9315">0965-9315</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/231692266">231692266</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/pia/prevcont/vol1/2.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(<a href="/wiki/PDF" title="PDF">PDF</a> online reproduction)</span> on 2009-06-17<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2008-08-05</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Papers+from+the+Institute+of+Archaeology&rft.atitle=Early+Middle+Formative+Occupation+in+the+Central+Maya+Lowlands%3A+Recent+Evidence+from+Cahal+Pech%2C+Belize&rft.volume=1&rft.pages=1-5&rft.date=1990&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F231692266&rft.issn=0965-9315&rft.aulast=Awe&rft.aufirst=Jaime&rft.au=Cassandra+Bill&rft.au=Mark+Campbell&rft.au=David+Cheetham&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucl.ac.uk%2Farchaeology%2Fpia%2Fprevcont%2Fvol1%2F2.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACahal+Pech" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAwe2000" class="citation journal cs1">Awe, Jaime (June 2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/belize/cahalpech.html">"Cahal Pech"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Archaeology_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeology Magazine">Archaeology Magazine</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Archaeology+Magazine&rft.atitle=Cahal+Pech&rft.date=2000-06&rft.aulast=Awe&rft.aufirst=Jaime&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archaeology.org%2Fonline%2Ffeatures%2Fbelize%2Fcahalpech.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACahal+Pech" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAwe2006" class="citation book cs1">Awe, Jaime (2006). <i>Maya Cities and Sacred Caves</i>. 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