. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. 70 MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA are built around courts or plazas and there is usually an artificial acropolis which is a great terraced mound serving as a common base or platform from which the individual pyramidal bases of several temples rise. At some sites this acropolis is a natural hill which has been trimmed down or added to, but at other sites it is entirely artificial. At Copan there is an especially fine. Fig. 19. Groundplans of Yaxchilan Temples: (a) Structure 42; (b) Structure 23. ex
. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. 70 MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA are built around courts or plazas and there is usually an artificial acropolis which is a great terraced mound serving as a common base or platform from which the individual pyramidal bases of several temples rise. At some sites this acropolis is a natural hill which has been trimmed down or added to, but at other sites it is entirely artificial. At Copan there is an especially fine. Fig. 19. Groundplans of Yaxchilan Temples: (a) Structure 42; (b) Structure 23. example of artificial platform mound rising from one end of the Great Plaza and affording space for several temples as well as for sunken courts with stepped sides that may have been theatres. The river washing against one side of this great mound has removed per- haps a third of it and made a vertical section that shows. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967. New York [American Museum Press]
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