Cuicuilco
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Cuicuilco is an important archaeological site located on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco in the southeastern Valley of Mexico, in what is today the borough of Tlalpan in Mexico City.
Western side of the circular pyramid at Cuicuilco.
Top ring of the main pyramid as seen from stairs leading to top.
Front part of the pyramid of Cuicuilco
Stairway portion of the Cuicuilco pyramid with modern buildings of the Coyoacán borough in the background
Mesoamerican chronology
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Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian ; the Archaic, the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic (900–1521 CE); as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and Postcolonial, or the period after independence from Spain (1821–present).
Olmec Stone Mask.
Structure 102 in Yarumela.
Recreation of Temple Rosalila at the Mayan Sculpture Museum, Honduras
Tikal ruins, Guatemala.