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Maya occupation at Cuello

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Time: 2600s BC

Place: Guatemala

Details: The Maya developed their first civilization in the Preclassic period. Scholars continue to discuss when this era of Maya civilization began. Maya occupation at Cuello has been carbon-dated to around 2600 BC.

‹ Earlier in historyThe civilization was primarily centered in modern-day Pakistan27th Century BCLater in history ›The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing27th Century BC

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