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37.0. Chacchob 573 37.1. H.E.D. POLLOCK AND GUSTAV STRÖMSVIK Chacchob, Yucatán YB 51:259–263, 1952 The ruins of Chacchob are in the District of Tekax, some 13 km by road and 10 or 11 km airline southeast of the town of Teabo. The site was first brought to the attention of the public over 100 years ago in an anonymous article that appeared in a Mérida periodical of the time. The part of the account that particularly has caught the attention of archaeologists is the statement that the ruins are surrounded by the remains of an ancient wall. Walled sites in the lowland Maya area are rare, and their occurrence is important because of certain implications as to the social structure and the general character of the civilization of the builders. Although the information provided by the anonymous antiquarian of a century ago has from time to time been made use of by modern authors, the truth of his assertions, so far as is known to the present writers , had never been confirmed by competent archaeological opinion. The work of Carnegie Institution at Mayapán, the largest and most important walled city known in Yucatán, made it of peculiar importance not only to verify the existence of a possibly similar, nearby T H E C A R N E G I E M A Y A Chacchob, located north of the Puuc hills and 15 km southeast of the modern town of Teabo, has been known as a walled site since 1845, when an article on the site entitled “Una ciudad murada” was published by Fr. Estanislao Carrillo in Registro Yucateco. The site is relatively small, enclosed by a masonry wall measuring some 1,400 m in circumference . Monumental architecture is confined to a single complex and a few small structures, none of which is very elaborate . The site was probably occupied for a very short period of time within the Cehpech Ceramic Complex, 800–1000 AD. The site was surrounded by a masonry wall and was probably founded as a fortified community rather than later fortified. The site was the object of a three-day survey in 1952byHarryPollockandStromsvik,andwaslatermapped, together with two other walled sites, Cuca and Dzonot Aké by David Webster during the winter of 1976–77. 574 CHACCHOB site, but to know something of the character of the remains. In May 1951, Eugenio May, aYucatecan employee who has worked for many years with the Department, was commissioned to visit Chacchob and to report his observations, particularly with reference to any indications of a wall surrounding the ruins. May spent two days at the site, and his report left little doubt but that the ancient settlement had in fact been walled. It was consequently planned that further reconnaissance should take place during the 1952 field season. Pollock and Strömsvik, traveling by truck, left the Institution’s base camp at Telchaquillo February 27. The road, the old highway to Tekit, ran southeast through the ruins of Mayapán. Just short of Km 12, and approximately 10 km from the center of Mayapán, the site of Chumul was noted at the left of the road. This moderate-sized group of ruins, which was visited on our return journey, rests on a hill. The principal pyramid is clearly seen from Mayapán, and because of its natural elevation gives the impression at that distance of being a much larger structure than it is. This pyramid is flanked by lesser pyramidal structures , one on each side, and several mounds of indeterminate character complete the group. Although all buildings are fallen, the character of the masonry and the stone cutting, the architectural decoration, and certain monoliths mark the ruins as of the Puuc Period. Features observed include finely cut lintels and fullwidthjambstones ,colonnettefaçadeelements,tapered columnar (picote) altars, and a rectangular altar. Passing through Tekit (Km 21), a sizable town, our road continued south-southeast toward Chumayel and Teabo. At Km 25 we reached Hacienda Ukúm, where there are ruins and where May in the previous year had discovered a sculptured stone built into the floor of the abandoned machine house of the hacienda. This stone, which was photographed on our return trip, appears to have been a door jamb. It carries a rathertypicalMayafigure,erectandwithplumedheaddress , facing a vertical row of glyph blocks and standing above two horizontal rows of glyph blocks. The 13 or 14 hieroglyphs represented have not been deciphered...

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