Gaspar Muñoz Cosme

La Acrópolis de Chilonché (Guatemala): Crónica de las investigaciones de un patrimonio en riesgo en el área maya

Intensive research carried out at the Acropolis of the ancient Mayan city of Chilonche, which begun as a result of the fortuitous discovery in 2009 of a large zoomorphic sculpture hidden inside its basement, has revealed the great quality of its buildings, one of which retains an exceptional room decorated with murals, which was closed by the Mayas themselves at the end of the Classical period. However, the widespread archaeological looting to which the Acropolis has been subjected has greatly hampered the work of research and conservation on this remarkable cultural heritage. In this regard, the application of new documentation technologies through the use of the laser scanner and the later treatment of the information for the use of 3D techniques has allowed a detailed analysis which will help to ensure their appropriate preservation.

La acrópolis de La Blanca: un ejemplo singular de la arquitectura Maya

The Research conducted in La Blanca (Department of Peten, Guatemala) since 2004 is revealing important data about this urban settlement that had a great development in the Late Classic (600-850 AD), and about the populations that occupied it, offering interesting testimonies that can be decisive to understand the history of the Mayan culture in this area of Peten. The uniqueness of the architecture of the Acropolis, with the great refinement of its design and composition, and with the grandeur of the scale of its rooms and the quality of its constructive execution, shows the cultural potential of La Blanca in its time of greatest apogee. But to this must be added other information of great relevance on the abandonment and subsequent occupation of these buildings, as well as the new data that are emerging on the previous phases of occupation, from the investigations inside the western basement of the Acropolis, especially of the substructure 6J2-Sub.2.