This list of Maya sites is an alphabetical listing of a number of significant

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s associated with the

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The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the

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of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and

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, much of Honduras and

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, and the southeastern states of

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from the

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eastwards, including the entire

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. Throughout this region, many hundreds of Maya sites have been documented in at least some form by archaeological surveys and investigations, while the numbers of smaller/uninvestigated (or unknown) sites are so numerous (one study has documented over 4,400 Maya sites)Witschey and Brown (2005) that no complete archaeological list has yet been made. The listing which appears here is necessarily incomplete, however it contains notable sites drawn from several large and ongoing surveys, such as the ''Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions'' (CMHI) and other sources (see

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). :Note : ''Ignore the Spanish definite article "El" or "La" (and their plurals "Los" and "Las") when looking for a site in the alphabetical listing e.g. for El Mirador, look under M rather than E.'' __TOC__

Most important sites

Maya sites which are known to have been among the largest and most influential

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through the various eras of Maya history —Formative (or Preclassic), Classic and Postclassic— and/or which have left the most impressive archaeological remains include:

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The long-term research project Text Database Dictionary of Classic Mayan is working on a list o
Archaeological Sites with Maya Inscriptions
that is constantly growing. The list is sorted by site name, and primarily encompasses the archaeological sites in Mesoamerica where Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions have been discovered and verifiably documented over the course of archaeological survey and excavations.

References

* * Amaroli, Paul; and Fabio E. Amador (2003)
Los Límites de Cihuatán: Reconocimiento arqueológico para determinar la extensión de la antigua ciudad
. San Salvador, El Salvador: Fundación Nacional de Arqueología de El Salvador. Retrieved on 11 April 2016. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maya Sites, List Of * Americas-related lists Archaeology-related lists Belize-related lists Guatemala-related lists Lists of buildings and structures in Mexico

Most important sites

Alphabetical listing

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See also

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