Dr Diane Chase
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first heard Aug 2026
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So that you'll see bloodletting implements, which were buried in caches that are in royal or public locations.
So they're doing things for the people on one hand, but on the other hand, they're doing things for themselves.
The amount of...
or the kinds of items that are located in this tomb, those are not things that everyone on the site would have had.
So there's actually a reasonable divide between this individual and the rest of the folks that lived at Karkal.
But that changes over time.
Sometimes, sometimes yes.
So he's an enormous figure in the history of this city.
I think he's a great indication of what Caracol was and what it's about to become in terms of the great Maya city.
We know that Caracol at that point in time was on a trade network, even though it's inland and not near a river, and that it was tied across Mesoamerica.
So there are also other remains that we found here are tied to the highlands of Guatemala.
So it's a suggestion of Caracol really was an important place that was lost for time in the jungle.
What happens after Tekabchak is all of the Maya rulers are connected with each other.
Caracol sends someone who becomes the ruler of Copan in Honduras, for example.
Our dynasty is related to one at Tikal.
So there are a lot of relationships among the elite at these various sites.
But Caracol is taking its place among the great leaders.
Caracol is one of the later sites to be found compared to Tikal and Copan and the sites in Mexico.
So it's taken a while for folks to realize how important it actually was to the Maya during the classic period.
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