Baking Pot

Baking Pot is a Maya archaeological site located in the Belize River Valley on the southern bank of the river, northeast of modern-day town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Belize; it is 6 kilometres downstream from the Barton Ramie and Lower Dover archaeological sites [1]. The site at Baking Pot is unique in that it had a large population during the Terminal Classic while other sites in the Belize River Valley were declining, and occupation continued into the Postclassic whereas major Classic Period sites in the southern lowlands were by then abandoned [1]. AMS radiocarbon results on burials and a cache show the site was first occupied around 700 - 400 BC [1]. In the late Preclassic, Baking Pot had a small population with little public architecture [1].