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Metal Detecting Finds in Guatemala

1 published discovery in the Jewellery category from Guatemala — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Jewellery from Guatemala

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Famous findLate Classic Maya, about AD 600-800 · found 1947

The Nebaj Jade: an American dig in the Guatemalan highlands found what was hailed as the finest Maya jade carving yet known

Guatemala · Jewellery

In 1947 a Carnegie Institution team led by A. Ledyard Smith, digging a deep pit into a mound at Nebaj in Guatemala's highlands, found a carved jade breast plaque showing a seated Maya ruler. It is now held by the national archaeology museum in Guatemala City.