• DOI:10.1038/260579A0
Corpus ID: 4270766

Radiocarbon chronology for early Maya occupation at Cuello, Belize

@article{Hammond1976RadiocarbonCF,
  title={Radiocarbon chronology for early Maya occupation at Cuello, Belize},
  author={N. Hammond and D. Pring and R. Berger and V. Switsur and A. Ward},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1976},
  volume={260},
  pages={579-581}
}

N. Hammond, D. Pring, +2 authors A. Ward

Published 1976

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Radiocarbon dates from excavations at the prehistoric Maya site of Cuello, Belize, indicate occupation around 2600 BC in calendar years, antedating the hitherto earliest known occupation of the Yucatan Peninsula by some 1,700 yr and demonstrating that sedentary pottery-using communities in the Maya lowlands may be as early as any in Mesoamerica.