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Sak-Bahlan, the Last City of Rebel Lacandons, Rises From the Jungle of Chiapas
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The impregnable Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, located in the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas, kept a secret that anthropologists tried to reveal for decades. That deep-green weed hid the remains of what was the last city of the rebel Lacandones, the wary population that fought not to submit to the conquering domain. Archeologists Brent Woodfill and Yuko Shiratori, with the support of the researcher of the National Institute of Anthropology and His…
After three centuries of having been abandoned and devoured by the jungle, the lost “white jaguar land”, Sak-Bahlan, appears again on the map. Through a predictive model, based on the use of geographic information systems (GIS), the researcher of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) Josuhé Lozada Toledo developed a map for its location, which allowed the Sak-Bahlan Archaeological Project, co-directed by Dr. Brent Woodfill an…
MEXICO CITY.— After three centuries abandoned and devoured by the forest of Montes Azules, an international archaeological project could have given Sak-Bahlan, the “white jaguar land”, which would be the last refuge of the Lacandones-ch’olti’es, the last Mayan rebels of Chiapas. This ancient Mayan enclave, which remained as a symbol of independence for more than a century, after the fall of its capital Lacam-Tun (“Gran Peñón”) in the hands of th…
It was occupied by rebels who resisted Spanish expansion.
Vestiges of structures, ceramic fragments and settlement patterns suggest a prolonged occupation between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries Argenis Esquipulas/PORTAVOZ In the heart of the Lacandona Jungle, under an impenetrable canopy of centuries-old ceibas, giant ferns and distant songs of saraguato monkeys, lies a site that for centuries was only a name in colonial chronicles: Sak-Bahlan, “the land of the white jaguar”. Abandoned in 1721 …
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