Southern Belize's Lubaantun: The Place Of Fallen Stones

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Southern Belize's Lubaantun: The Place Of Fallen Stones
The most extensive Maya site in Southern Belize, Lubaantun is well known for the unique style of construction. All structures are made of limestone blocks with no visible mortar binding them together. The stability of each structure lies in every hand-cut grime, which was properly measured and shaped to fit snuggle next to each neighboring block.

Lubaantun is a late Classic ceremonial center dated to 700 to 900 AD. In time, the ground on which it was built started to subsist and the mortarless blocks started to tumble. Thereafter, the site was given the name 'Lubaantun,' which means 'place of the fallen rocks' in the modern-day Maya language.

Eleven large structures tower above give main plazas and three ball courts. As opposed to most of the other Maya ceremonial sites, the existing structures are sturdy and have no doorways. Another one-of-a-kind feature not found in other sites around the region is the rounded corners on the structures. Because no corbeled arches exist at the top of these structures, it is believed that perishable materials like wood and thatch were used to build superstructures on top of these pyramids.