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Contact: Andrea Lynn
andreal@uiuc.edu
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Caption: Lisa Lucero, professor of anthropology at Illinois, believes that kings weren’t the only Mayan people building or sponsoring Late Classic period temples (from about 550 to 850), the stepped pyramids that rose like beacons out of the southern lowlands as early as 300 B.C.
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau
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