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Archeology and Volcanism in Central America: The Zapotitán Valley of El Salvador

Archeology and Volcanism in Central America: The Zapotitán Valley of El Salvador

Sheets, Payson D.

Paperback

Series: Texas Pan American

ArchaeologyCentral American HistoryGeology

ISBN10: 0292741693
ISBN13: 9780292741690
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jan 1 1984
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.63
Height: 0.67 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

Scientists have long speculated on the impact of extreme natural catastrophes on human societies. Archeology and Volcanism in Central America provides dramatic evidence of the effects of several volcanic disasters on a major civilization of the Western Hemisphere, that of the Maya.

During the past 2,000 years, four volcanic eruptions have taken place in the Zapotitán Valley of southern El Salvador. One, the devastating eruption of Ilopango around A.D. 300, forced a major migration, pushing the Mayan people north to the Yucatán Peninsula. Although later eruptions did not have long-range implications for cultural change, one of the subsequent eruptions preserved the Cerén site--a Mesoamerican Pompeii where the bodies of the villagers, the palm-thatched roofs of their houses, the pots of food in their pantries, even the corn plants in their fields were preserved with remarkable fidelity.

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