The site is the nexus of the largest network of stone causeways of the ancient Mayan world, and it contains many engraved and sculpted stelae (upright stones) that document ceremonial life and important events of the Late Classic Period (c. 600 900 ce) of Mesoamerican civilization.
"Rather than domesticate the species they exploited," says Erickson, "the people of Baure domesticated the landscape". Erickson's savannah is contoured by a dense, interconnecting network of earthen causeways, settlement mounds, raised fields, and thousands of kilo metres of ridges, up to two metres across and half-a-metre high, that zig-zag across the landscape.
By the Late Classic, a network of sacbeob (causeways) linked various parts of the city, running for several kilometres through its urban core.
The Monumental Mounds Region (MMR) is an archaeological sub-region characterized by hundreds of pre-Columbian habitation mounds associated with a complex network of canals and causeways, and situated in the forest savanna mosaic of the Llanos de Moxos.
The first Spanish conquistadors to gaze on the city were awed by its size and orderliness, and they compared its grandeur to that of European centres such as Sevilla (Seville) and Salamanca in Spain and especially Venice in Italy, with its comparably intricate network of navigation canals, bridges, and causeways.
One of causeways to the palace has been bombed.
Buried under the jungle floor, he claimed, were also traces of causeways and roadways.
The garden is divided into four large squares by means of causeways and water channels.
We drove through St. Pierre Quiberon, St. Julien, Portivy and over the narrowest of causeways to Penthièvre.
Our plan was to head south across Long Island, walk over the causeway that spans a network of lagoons and creeks and finish up on Rockaway, a heavily developed long and narrow sandbank off the southern coast of Long Island.
