Archaeoastronomical identifying features in the Archaeological Park of Copan Ruins

Abstract

About the Copan Archaeological Park (PAC), have developed a very important series of investigations, primarily from an archaeological perspective, which has been and continues to have great merit and importance in the national and global scientific environment, but every day Copan importance of motivating the interest of scientists from the most varied perspectives, an issue that demands the construction of theoretical approaches from different academic edges, which constitute an important intellectual contribution to a holistic description, and interpretation archaeoastronomical is. Demonstrate this condition is the fundamental task of this research and for this work was the description of the position and possible astronomical alignment of the following archaeological structures located in the PAC: Stelae 10 and 12, Patio East and Temple 22, Temple 11, Game Ball, Building 4, Estela D and Nuñez Chinchilla Sector at Burial.

Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.6(1) 2013, 78-107