La Danta, El Mirador
How does a society with no metal, no wheeled transport and no draft animals move roughly 2.8 million cubic metres of stone in a seasonal swamp with no rivers — and do it centuries before the Classic Maya were supposed to be capable of organising anything on that scale?
c. 300 BCE - 150 CE (Late Preclassic), at a site occupied from the 6th century BCE and at its peak in the 3rd century BCE · El Mirador, Petén Department, GuatemalaAdded August 2026