Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. The Americas
6. Latin American
7. Colonial Latin American styles
8. Colonial Latin American architecture styles

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the culture, and the style of architecture prevalent in southern Chiapas, Mexico, southern Guatemala and Honduras, and western El Salvador. The style reflects Classic Mesoamerican monumentality and Teotichuacan ceramic detailing, and utilizes decorative Mesoamerican green volcanic glass. It is distinguished from more elaborate Lowland Maya styles in the lack of stele-altars and colonnaded areas, the reticent use of corbel arches for substructural tombs, and the scarcity of polychrome ceramics, lofty corbel-vaulted temple designs, and structures measuring celestial cycles.