Proyecto Salinas de los Nueve Cerros : Resultados de la Primera Temporada de Campo, 2010

"The site of Salinas de los Nueve Cerros was a major center of salt production and interregional interaction for 2,000 years, from its beginnings in the Middle Preclassic to its collapse in the Terminal Classic. Nonetheless,the salt source, unique in the Maya Lowlands, continued in use almost without interruption until the 1950s by various groups, including Akala, Lakondon, Q’eqchi’, as well as Spaniards and Ladinos.Many archaeologists have worked at the site since the 1970s (Dillon 1977, 1979; Arroyo 1993; Geopetrol 2005; Leal 2006), who, with limitations in scale and focus, have revealed a great quantity of invaluable data on the site. The present work details discoveries and preliminary hypotheses that have emerged from the first field season of the Salinas de los Nueve Cerros Project, a holistic project studying the site’s settlement and sacred geography both in the past and present." (source editeur)