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Tak’alik A’baj is located in the Guatemalan Pacific Low Lands, far away from Petén at the North, making it the biggest Mayan city in the Pacific Ocean coastal area in Mesoamérica, the city is also interesting due to its long occupation periods (800 BC to 900 AD), it is the only site in Mesoamerica with Olmec influences in the early years and Mayan influences afterward, and was a important commerce centre mainly with Kaminal Juyú and Chocol in what is now Guatemala City, and with Chocolá, to the east
The site is located in El Asintal, Retalhuleu some 118.06 milles (190 km) from Guatemala City in a paved road about 3 hrs, driving, during witch you will enjoy the major Volcanoes of Guatemala.
It has 82 monumental structures, including an astronomical observatory, temples, terraces, etc. and 282 monuments known to date, including impressive stelas and altars. The materials used are granite stones much different from the lime stone used in the Petén cities. Source UVG, Dr Marion Popenoe de Hatch
Would someone be so kind as to translate the Long Count dates shown on the lower of the two stelae graphics? The stone in the upper image appears to be too worn to see the whole date, but there are two dates on the lower graphic that would be interesting to know more about. Cheers -- Erik Anderson, 207.118.47.246 ( talk) 15:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
My watchlist was showing you'd been working on this article, so I thought I'd stop by and see how things are coming along. I was amazed at the content you've added -- wow! Keep up the good work!! Madman ( talk) 03:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I fully agree with Madman: Fantastic work! Just out of curiosity: what criterion did you use to include certain terraces/structures/altars/monuments/stelae? Availability of sources or best preserved or something else? bamse ( talk) 09:42, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
After my massive expansion of this article, I'm toying with the idea of submitting it for FA at some future date (and certainly not immediately), however I'm concerned about the article possibly being too lengthy - does anyone have an opinion on this? It might be worthwhile spooling off the majority of munuments etc. into a separate List of monuments at Takalik Abaj (for example) with just the more notable monuments being left here. On the other hand I might just throw the whole article up for FA review and see if it gets spat back out again. Any views either way? Simon Burchell ( talk) 12:33, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Agree that having a list of monuments article wld be the most sensible way to hive off some of the info. Maybe such a list can be started anyway, then if later during FA it becomes an issue a head-start has already been made (the list wld not necessarily be in same format/presentation/content as the info currently in the article). I would not want to lose all that info from the main article altogether, agree it needs to cover at least the major / more significant ones.-- cjllw ʘ TALK 01:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
For the record, in case anyone comes along here in a year or two's time and wonders if this is a reduced article - the whole thing got through FA unscathed. Simon Burchell ( talk) 11:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
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Spelling varies throughout the article, and the placement of the glottal stop seems inconsistent with the given Mayan pronunciation. So which is it: a'baj, ab'aj', ab'aj, or abäj? Or are these variants? Is there a standard spelling?-- 2.200.163.108 ( talk) 11:45, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
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Tak’alik A’baj is located in the Guatemalan Pacific Low Lands, far away from Petén at the North, making it the biggest Mayan city in the Pacific Ocean coastal area in Mesoamérica, the city is also interesting due to its long occupation periods (800 BC to 900 AD), it is the only site in Mesoamerica with Olmec influences in the early years and Mayan influences afterward, and was a important commerce centre mainly with Kaminal Juyú and Chocol in what is now Guatemala City, and with Chocolá, to the east
The site is located in El Asintal, Retalhuleu some 118.06 milles (190 km) from Guatemala City in a paved road about 3 hrs, driving, during witch you will enjoy the major Volcanoes of Guatemala.
It has 82 monumental structures, including an astronomical observatory, temples, terraces, etc. and 282 monuments known to date, including impressive stelas and altars. The materials used are granite stones much different from the lime stone used in the Petén cities. Source UVG, Dr Marion Popenoe de Hatch
Would someone be so kind as to translate the Long Count dates shown on the lower of the two stelae graphics? The stone in the upper image appears to be too worn to see the whole date, but there are two dates on the lower graphic that would be interesting to know more about. Cheers -- Erik Anderson, 207.118.47.246 ( talk) 15:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
My watchlist was showing you'd been working on this article, so I thought I'd stop by and see how things are coming along. I was amazed at the content you've added -- wow! Keep up the good work!! Madman ( talk) 03:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I fully agree with Madman: Fantastic work! Just out of curiosity: what criterion did you use to include certain terraces/structures/altars/monuments/stelae? Availability of sources or best preserved or something else? bamse ( talk) 09:42, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
After my massive expansion of this article, I'm toying with the idea of submitting it for FA at some future date (and certainly not immediately), however I'm concerned about the article possibly being too lengthy - does anyone have an opinion on this? It might be worthwhile spooling off the majority of munuments etc. into a separate List of monuments at Takalik Abaj (for example) with just the more notable monuments being left here. On the other hand I might just throw the whole article up for FA review and see if it gets spat back out again. Any views either way? Simon Burchell ( talk) 12:33, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Agree that having a list of monuments article wld be the most sensible way to hive off some of the info. Maybe such a list can be started anyway, then if later during FA it becomes an issue a head-start has already been made (the list wld not necessarily be in same format/presentation/content as the info currently in the article). I would not want to lose all that info from the main article altogether, agree it needs to cover at least the major / more significant ones.-- cjllw ʘ TALK 01:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
For the record, in case anyone comes along here in a year or two's time and wonders if this is a reduced article - the whole thing got through FA unscathed. Simon Burchell ( talk) 11:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
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Spelling varies throughout the article, and the placement of the glottal stop seems inconsistent with the given Mayan pronunciation. So which is it: a'baj, ab'aj', ab'aj, or abäj? Or are these variants? Is there a standard spelling?-- 2.200.163.108 ( talk) 11:45, 28 March 2021 (UTC)