A ceramic vase is seen next to a tomb raider hole is seen in one of the structures of Naachtun Archaeological site, while Archaeologists work in the exploration and documentation of the Naachtun Archaeological site located in the Dos Lagunas Two Lagoons Biological Preserve, in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve in Northeast Peten, in Guatemala. Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. Theàarchaeologicalàrecord consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes.àArchaeologyàcan be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. Naachtun is an archaeological siteàof theàpre-ColumbianàMaya civilization, situated at the northeastern perimeter of theàMirador Basinàregion in the southern Maya lowlands, now in the modern-day Department ofàEl Petén, northern Guatemala. Naachtun was a major center of the region by the late Formative or Pre-Classic Period, and was one of the few Formative Period Mirador Basin centers which continued to flourish into the succeeding Classic period.
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