MINOR PUBLIC BUILDING C12

It is located north of the Major Public Pyramidal Building with Sunken Circular Plaza C1, on an alluvial terrace from which most of the settlement may be seen, and it is in line with Residential Unit C10. In the building’s central component there is an entrance hall, a ceremonial hall with benches and central fire pit. A group of minor rooms were added to the east, west and north of this component. In the surrounding area evidence of food consumption and some objects, such as a fragment of unfired clay sculpture and a rock bead, have been recovered.

Findings In The Minor Public Building C12

To build the walls and other architectural components, they used small cut stones, arranged in irregular rows and joined with clay, sand and powdered shellfish mortar.