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The Ancient Cerros, Belize

Cerros is located in northern Belize on a small seaside peninsula. Cerros was primarily occupied during the Late Preclassic, also known as the Late Formative (beginning 400 B.C.). Mollusk remains found in the residential areas of the site indicate that a slow-moving lagoon characterized the Cerro's Late Preclassic environment. Lagoon resources were enhanced by the direct access to two nearby rivers: the New River and Rio Hondo. With direct coastal and river access, Cerros was ideally situated to act both as a seaport and a river port. This strategic position allowed Cerros to become a dominant trading force during the Late Preclassic period. During the Late Preclassic period, Cerros was one of the largest settlement areas in the region. Intense occupation of Cerros began in the middle part of the Late Preclassic period (50 B.C.) and lasted until abandonment at the end of the Late Preclassic around 150 A.D. Although it was large for the period, Cerros is generally considered a small regional center when compared to later Maya settlements. The site of Cerros covers an area of around one square kilometer. It is composed of a site core on the peninsula with pyramids, civic architecture, and a residential zone that encircles the core to the south. The civic center of the site was built over an earlier village that lies in the northern extreme of the site. The monumental architecture in this area of the site had exotic offerings, indicating elaborate ritual activities. Some of these large masonry structures were symbolically charged by the presence of elaborate stucco masks (they remain preserved on one structure). Despite the site's seemingly short occupation, it has had a complex history. The monumental architecture at Cerros was built relatively quickly, over a span of 200 years, but not in a single episode As people modified architectural space and the natural environment, the relationship people had with the landscape changed over time. After it's Preclassic collapse, the site was abandoned for hundreds of years. In the postclassic period pilgrims came to Cerros to perform rituals that may have been oriented around the worship of ancestral gods of the deep past. These questions require you to fill in each chart with yell thought out answers. Derive your answers from what you already know about other civilizations. Question 3 requires a written synthesis that combines the results of your charts. 1) How did Cerro's built and natural landscape change over time, and what practices (actions that people do) would have been possible in each of the site's 3 historical periods? Make a list for each. Think in terms of hierarchy, agriculture, trade, etc. Landscape Practices Period 1) Period 2) Period 3) 2) What kind's of social relationships do you think existed for each time period? Social Relationships Period 1) Period 2) Period 3) 3) How do you think the social relationships at Cerros were related to the practices you noted for each time period in question 1? Synthesis: Describe the relationship between society and it's changing practices at the Preclassic site of Cerros. Why are these relationships important to understand? Social Relationships Practices Period 1) Period 2) Period 3)