Changes in the Urban Design in the Early Formative period

After a while of being abandoned, the settlement was once again occupied and transformed during the Early Formative period. In the lower half, northeast of the Core Area, they built stepped pyramidal buildings, which were smaller than those of the former period. A Minor Public Pyramidal building with a sunken circular plaza, which was embedded in a quadrangular platform (B1) stood out, with other Minor Public building of extended architecture, with no plaza (A4). The latter was built over a building and plaza of the former period. Another Minor Building (B2), next to the Minor Pyramidal one, has not yet being investigated. All the building facades were oriented towards a central shared space. This site’s building technology and architectonic style of the Early Formative period are very similar to those of Vichama and Piedra Parada sites: they built with horizontal lines of cut stone and pebbles, and decorated some walls with friezes in relief. MINOR PUBLIC