Pilas

Stephen D. Houston - Graduate Studies and Research
... the site of Caracol, Belize, and served as Director on a project mapping the Dos Pilas site in the Petexbatun region, Pasión River, Guatemala, spending several months at a time in ... The work at Dos Pilas was expanded into his dissertation, The Inscriptions and Monumental Art of Dos Pilas, Guatemala A Study of Classic Maya History and Politics ...

Dos Pilas - History - Collapse and Abandonment
... the whole area following the defeat of Dos Pilas' patron Calakmul and in 761 the city was dramatically abandoned after Tamarindito and other Petexbatún centres rebelled against their ... The Dos Pilas royal family probably transported itself to the more defensible Aguateca, which lies only 10 km to the southeast ... The violent end of Dos Pilas is evident from the smashed remains of a royal throne recovered from the Bat Palace ...

History - Late Classic - Tikal and Dos Pilas
... In 629 Tikal founded Dos Pilas, some 110 kilometres (68 mi) to the southwest, as a military outpost in order to control trade along the course of the Pasión River ... Roughly twenty years later Dos Pilas was attacked by Calakmul and was soundly defeated ... The first two rulers of Dos Pilas continued to use the Mutal emblem glyph of Tikal, and they probably felt that they had a legitimate claim to the throne ...

Las Pilas
... Las Pilas (or El Hoyo) is a complex volcano located in the western part of Nicaragua ... Part of a 30-km-long volcanic massif, Las Pilas has a series of well preserved flank vents surrounding a central cone ... Las Pilas last erupted in the 1950s and before that possibly in the 16th century ...

Aguateca - Early Development
... Aguateca and the nearby city of Dos Pilas were the twin capitals of a powerful dynasty claiming descent from the rulers of Tikal ... Around 700 AD, it appears that Dos Pilas Rulers 3 and 4 were responsible for shifting the focus of the dynasty from Dos Pilas to Aguateca, as can be ... In 761 AD, the rulers of Dos Pilas appear to have abandoned their city and relocated to Aguateca ...