Page 3 - HP1A 004 Guatemalan History

Quiche, Escuintla.

Because it was impossible to keep on

moving from one place to another,

hunters and gatherers had to find

a way to settle in one single place

and survive in there. The first signs

of cultivation were found in Petén

and the Pacific coast. These settlers were found in places like La Blanca

cultivated maize in the beginnings and Tilapa in 2500 BC. After

of 3500 BC. After a millennium, the excavations were done in the 21st

ancient Guatemalan people started century, materials from the early

to create tools that would help and middle Pre-classic periods were

them in their daily lives. The oldest found. Pottery found in the Antigua

ceramic potteries from Guatemala Valley indicated that it was made