The site

El Tajín, in Veracruz, Mexico, is a ceremonial center of the Classic Veracruz culture that flourished between roughly 600 and 1200 CE. Its ranks of stepped pyramids and numerous ballcourts crown a humid coastal valley, and the site is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage property. For the field explorer, its density of ballcourts marks it as one of Mesoamerica's great arenas of the ritual ball game.

Field notes

civilizations

Classic Veracruz

types

Ceremonial pyramid · Ballcourt

occupied

600 CE — 1,200 CE

country

Mexico