School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030, USA.
Science. 2013 Apr 26;340(6131):467-71. doi: 10.1126/science.1234493.
The spread of plaza-pyramid complexes across southern Mesoamerica during the early Middle Preclassic period (1000 to 700 BCE) provides critical information regarding the origins of lowland Maya civilization and the role of the Gulf Coast Olmec. Recent excavations at the Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala, documented the growth of a formal ceremonial space into a plaza-pyramid complex that predated comparable buildings at other lowland Maya sites and major occupations at the Olmec center of La Venta. The development of lowland Maya civilization did not result from one-directional influence from La Venta, but from interregional interactions, involving groups in the southwestern Maya lowlands, Chiapas, the Pacific Coast, and the southern Gulf Coast.
在中美洲早期前古典时期（公元前 1000 年至 700 年），广场-金字塔建筑群在中美洲南部的传播，为低地玛雅文明的起源和海湾沿岸奥尔梅克人的作用提供了关键信息。最近在危地马拉的玛雅遗址切巴尔的发掘工作记录了一个正式的礼仪空间演变成一个广场-金字塔建筑群的过程，这个建筑群比其他低地玛雅遗址和拉文塔奥尔梅克中心的主要居住地的类似建筑更早。低地玛雅文明的发展不是来自拉文塔的单向影响，而是来自区域间的相互作用，涉及到南玛雅低地、恰帕斯、太平洋海岸和南湾海岸的群体。
