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ID: 6000711
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6000711
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Becan (deserted settlement)  Becan (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 18.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 089 28 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -89.4667  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient Mayan settlement occupied in the middle Pre-Classic period ca. 550 BCE, and grew to a major population and ceremonial center a few hundred years later in the late Preclassic; contains hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Names:
Becan (preferred,C,V)
Becán (C,V,Spanish,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mexico (nation)  ........  Mexico (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Campeche (state)  ............  Campeche (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Becan (deserted settlement)  ................  Becan (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)  ............  discovered 1934
ancient site (C)
city (H)
Maya (Mayan) (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Becan..........  [NRW Preferred, VP Preferred]
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..............  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) accessed 3 May 2016
..............  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 338
Becán..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject: .....  [NRW, VP]
..................  Evans and Webster, Archaeology of Ancient Mexico (2001) 80
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 3 August 2010
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1652796
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 338
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Prager et al., A Checklist of Archaeological Sites with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (2014-) "Becan", accessed 3 May 2016
..........  Times Atlas of World History (1989)

 

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