San Estevan

The San Estevan archaeological site is located in northern Belize 1 km from the modern community of San Estevan [1]. The site is a Maya civilization site occupied during the Formative (800 BC – AD 300) and Classic (AD 300 – 900) eras of Mesoamerican chronology [1]. San Estevan is located on the New River halfway between the sites of Cerros and Lamanai [1]. Beginning in the Late Formative period, San Estevan was a regional political center [1]. William Bullard mapped the civic-ceremonial center of the site in the 1960s where he carried out excavations and restored two Early Classic structures (I and II) [1]. In 1989 and 1990, Laura Levi mapped outlying house groups at San Estevan in detail and excavated several domestic structures [1]. Mound XV, at 15 m, is the highest structure remaining at the site and dates to the Late Formative period [1].