• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The Melhado Site, a House Mound Group in British Honduras
  • Beteiligte: Willey, Gordon R.; Bullard, William R.
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1956
  • Erschienen in: American Antiquity, 22 (1956) 1, Seite 29-44
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.2307/276165
  • ISSN: 0002-7316; 2325-5064
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  • Beschreibung: The Melhado site is near the town of El Cayo, in the Cayo District of west central British Honduras. This region forms a part of the eastern edge of the Peten forests. Its limestone hills and ridges are covered by a dense jungle growth, including such typical trees as the mahogany, sapodilla, Spanish cedar, and cahune palm. Rainfall is heavy, amounting to 50 to 70 inches a year at El Cayo, most of it falling in the rainy season from June to October.