Lamanai Archaeological Tour - Nine Belize

Lamanai Archaeological Tour

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  • Activity Level Fairly Easy
  • Group Size Medium Group
    14 guests per guide
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All about the Lamanai Archaeological Tour.

Lamanai is an amazing site located in the western shore of the New River Lagoon in the Orange Walk district of Belize. This sites archaeology recognizes that it was a ceremonial center for well over 1000 years of it’s occupation.

On their arrival in AD1543/44 the Spaniards found a Maya community that was still maintaining its ancient traditions. One other thing archaeologists have reconciled about the site is that it shared very good relationship with a site on the island of Ambergris Caye with which it did trade.

William Bullard of the Royal Ontario Museum in 1962. He did not excavate but collected pottery and sherds for study. thereafter, from the same museum, Dr. David Pendergast embarked on excavations from 1974 and this study did not close until 1986.