Nakbe, El Peten, Guatemala
Nakbe, El Peten, Guatemala [Si].Maya urban and ceremonial centre of the Formative (middle Pre-Classic) Stage, dating to the period 600–400 BC. The site comprises 80 or more structures in two main clusters of platforms and mounds, including a pyramid some 50m high. A carved limestone stela depicting two rulers or deities facing one another is probably the oldest known stela in the Maya Lowland. The site is also important because the ceremonial centre appears to overlie an earlier village established about 1000 BC. It thus provides a glimpse of the transition from tribal villages to centralized chiefdoms. Nakbe was eclipsed by El Mirador some 13km away to the northwest in the Classic stage.[Rep.: I. Graham, 1967, Archaeological explorations in El Peten, Guatemala. New Orleans: Tulane University]
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