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Brosimum alicastrum, commonly known as breadnut, Maya nut or ramon, and many others, is a tree species in the family Moraceae of flowering plants, whose other genera include figs and mulberries. Two subspecies are commonly recognized:
The site's name derives from the Mayan name of the ramon tree (Brosimum alicastrum), from the words ixim and che, meaning literally "maize tree". [21] Iximche was called Guatemala by the Spanish, from the Nahuatl Quauhtemallan meaning "forested land". [22]
Ujuxte and other Preclassic Maya sites, western Central America. The site of Ujuxte after the Ramón or Breadnut tree (Brosimum alicastrum)) is the largest Preclassic Maya site to be discovered on the Guatemalan Pacific coast. It is in the Retalhuleu Department, in western Guatemala.
Topoxte (/tɒpɒʃtˈɛ/) (or Topoxté in Spanish orthography) is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the Petén Basin in northern Guatemala with a long occupational history dating as far back as the Middle Preclassic. [2] As the capital of the Kowoj Maya, it was the largest of the few Postclassic Mesoamerican sites in the area.
Experimental research conducted in the 1960s by Mayanist Dennis E. Puleston demonstrated that chultúns around Tikal were particularly effective for long-term storage of ramon nuts (Brosimum alicastrum). [2] Associated with water, rain, and child sacrifice, chultunob' are widely viewed as points of access to the Maya underworld. [3]
Valeriana is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche in the tropical rainforest jungle near its eastern border with the state of Quintana Roo. [1] Its discovery was announced in October 2024, and the site was named after an adjacent lake.
The following year Puleston tried the experiment once more, but this time he added a nut from a local tree – the Brosium alicastrum (ramon) to the mix. O.F. Cook (1935) is cited in Puleston's article as the originator of the idea that chultuns could have been used to store ramon nuts, however, without Puleston's experiment this assertion had ...
Among the Maya, the central world tree was conceived as or represented by a ceiba tree and is known variously as a wacah chan [pronunciation?] or yax imix che [pronunciation?], depending on the Mayan language. [3] The trunk of the tree could also be represented by an upright caiman, whose skin evokes the tree's spiny trunk. [4]