But the end of the 9th bak’tun in 830 CE was not recorded at either site, for by this time the rulers of both kingdoms had lost their thrones and their subjects had already abandoned Copan and Quirigua to the tropical forest. Markets provided access to food, goods, services, and also were an outlet for the products of each household. On the day he died, Tikal was invaded by troops led by Siyaj Kʼakʼ, who overthrew the reigning family. These monuments may represent the oldest surviving markers of the cycles of time in the Maya calendar, placed to commemorate each K’atun.

Acerca de este último, se estudiaron los monumentos desde dos aspectos: el formal y el de contenido, tomando en consideración la intermedialidad (texto e imagen), la intertextualidad (visibilidad e interacción con el entorno) y la multimodalidad (uso de varios canales comunicativos) de los monumentos como unidades discursivas. He was often referred to in hieroglyphic texts as Master of Aj Nik, referring to the capture of his first captive before he became king, this phrase being attached to his name on 32 separate occasions.Therefore, there are no sufficient grounds for distinguishing between the early Piedras Negras kings Itzam K'an Ahk I and Itzam K'an Ahk II. Right clockwise, this carved jade head was part of the necklace worn by the queen in the Margarita Tomb, which also contained the Dazzler Vessel seen in a roll out of its painted decoration. The Temple of Inscriptions still towers today amid the ruins of Palenque, as the supreme symbol of influence and power in Palenque. Afterward, events conspired to bring these investigations to a close, leaving the site in a half-century scholarly limbo.

Excavations under Copan’s Hieroglyphic Stairway found another sequence of Early Classic buildings and a carved monument, the Motmot Marker, portraying K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’ and Ruler 2. subsanar los requerimientos alimenticios de la población, aunados a la posible existencia de una gran sequía, la población fue disminuyendo paulatinamente(Middleton 2012: 274; Griffin, et al.

The sequence begins with the dynastic founder, K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’, whose name is in his headdress and who sits on an ajaw (“ruler”) glyph as he hands the royal scepter to Yax Pasaj with his left hand. The construction of temples, causeways, and reservoirs, as well as palaces for rulers encouraged the prosperity and growth of major population centers.