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Belize History, Ambergris Caye History
Archaeology in Belize year was available for any pursuit they wished. They did
have 22 major fiestas per year!!
Maya History of the island
Marco Gonzales Now this "system" operated in perfect harmony with man

Belize History and nature for many thousands of years. Population
levels were around 2 million just for Northern Belize.
Maya Sites in Belize
Geography of Fishing Around 800 A.D. the Maya began to abandon their cities

Mervino's Hole in the Web in Central America. Various causes such as lack of water,
disease, poor soil, or class uprising are suspected. Click
Belize and San Pedro Photo
here for tours to the Maya world.
Gallery
Alternative Medicine in Belize When Europeans arrived on Ambergris Caye, the island

Aztec Account of Spanish was ruled by the declining, but still functional Maya
Conquest principality of Chetumal. There was a trading system
throughout northern Belize, especially between the
Archaeology of Ambergris
Chetumal and the Ulna regions.
Caye
Trade was based on cacao, with
Geology of Ambergris Caye canoes travelling south from

Excavations on Ambergris Yucatan with fish, cloth, clothing,
Caye slaves, and other items, then
returning home with cacao. Ambergris Caye was a hub of
Sailing the Caribbean Alone,
a this activity. Centrally located in the trading web, it was
1911
a rest stop for traders headed north or south on the route.
Recognition of Psychiatric All the Chetumal traffic came by Ambergris Caye. The
Disorder in British Honduras, local economy was thus based on fishing, providing
1973 foodstuffs for the northern Belize logging camps as well
Caste War of the Yucatan, as large parts of the Maya area. Boat related industry, due
1847 - 1901 to the significance of the trade route, were also important
to the island.
Yucatan Before and After the
Conquest, by Diego de Landa
The island was also important for its abundant seafood
The Maya Chronicles supply and it strategic military position at the mouth of

After The Castes War -- The the Bay of Chetumal.
Last Cupuls
There are numerous ruins
Holocene Sediments of the
on the island, though not of the large-temple type
Belize Shelf
that you see on the mainland. The locals islanders
Geologic Origins of were fisherman, and their camps when discovered
Ambergris Caye are lower to the ground, with pockets of conch
shells and pottery pieces. Tending to be marked by
Maritime Trade On Ambergris
black or dark colored dirt, sites such as the one at
Caye
Tres Cocos are just beginning to be fully explored. For a text-only description of
Ambergris Museum Maya life on Ambergris Caye, click here.
Popol Vuh - The Maya Book
of the Dawn Of Life, The Mayans continued to thrive until about 1000 A.D. when they declined and
left the island unoccupied until the coming of a new people who would contribute
Maya Cookbook
monumentally to the history of the Island.
Autobiography: Raymond
Denis Auxillou Jr. In the 1600s British pirates roaming the Caribbean found a little haven, discretely
tucked inside a great barrier reef. It is believed that the pirates used Ambergris
Aztec Life
Caye as a safehaven to hide-out and stash their valuables and that they eventually

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