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Art/Literary - Archaeology / Maya/Mexico | | Spanish term or phrase: Dos plazas caracterizan los espacios abiertos donde se levantan | Dos plazas caracterizan los espacios abiertos donde se levantan el Palacio, los templos, las habitaciones y el Juego de Pelota, estructura de tres edificios que conforman la cancha abierta; la central destaca porque sus características son las de un bien definido estilo Petén.
I cannot make head nor tail of this! This is describing the Grupo Danto at Chakanbakán in Quintana Roo, and this one sentence is all that is said about it. |
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  Edward Tully
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| Grading comment Sorry, everyone, but none of the answers is right, but I'll give Edward a couple of pts. Definitely not called "squares" in the literature, and these are formed by buildings that ring them. I'm also certain that "la central" is referring to the central "estructura" in the ball court group. But thanks for trying to help!
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31 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 Two squares fill the open spaces (around which were built the...
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Having seen some of these splendid structures first hand, I wonder whether the entire complex is built around the ball court. It talks about three buildings that constitute the structure, which appears to refer to the ball court. Some of the ball courts had temples, changing rooms and lateral walls built into them. "La central" one would think square, but are the open spaces ie the squares in the complex what define the ball court?
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I see the confusion, the central might possibly be the central ball court. "la cancha abierta" (they are all in the open after all). It seems to be saying that the courts are defined by these buildings and sometimes the courts came in pairs... (possibly the squares are the courts, but that would obviously be too whacky for words). I would plump for the squares being open spaces, which were the communal areas of the settlement, and the court another open air structure.
But, there is nothing for it, the only way is to and see for yourself! :)
| Antony Price
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Asker: La central (estructura). But thanks for thinking this through with me. I'm still puzzled because if you have an open space, it can't by definition be filled with buildings; the buildings ring the plazas (or put differently, the plazas are formed by the buildings that surround them).
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