An Early Maya Stela on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala

Abstract

In 1963, during the second field season of Milwaukee Public Museum excavation on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala, a very important stela fragment was discovered (“Monument” 42, Bilbao; Figure 2 ). It was carved in an art style which may be best described as “Proto-Maya” or “early Maya”, and we have reason to believe that it Protoclassic in age.