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	[Aztlan] Limekilns, tzaal and sascab
		In the northern lowlands the most similar type of limestone is more often known as sascab tunich or scaboso and there, in Campeche and Yucatan, the word tzaal designates a different variety of limestone.
		Sascab is a naturally occurring unconsolidated calcium carbonate material that is in some ways related to tzaal.
		Usually any such material is designated as sascab by archaeologists without distinction because the two are visually similar in excavated architecture.
	www.famsi.org /pipermail/aztlan/2006-April/001323.html (866 words)

	[No title]
		This white sascab layer was also laid against the face of the blocking wall.
		We think that this sascab layer registers a ritual of termination or abandonment of the corridor some unknown time after the construction of the blocking wall.
		After we had cleaned off this floor and taken measurements on both sides of the blocking wall we determined the floor behind the blocking wall was the same floor in the unblocked portion of the corridor.
	maya.csuhayward.edu /yaxuna/6f3local.html (12815 words)

	Lime (mineral) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otherwise it most commonly means slaked lime, as the more dangerous form is usually described more specifically as quicklime or burnt lime.
		sascab - a building and paving material (Central America).
		This page was last modified 10:53, 27 June 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lime_(mineral) (214 words)

	Mesoweb Publications
		On top there is a layer of smaller stones reinforced with a mixture of lime and sascab, and on top of this a typical surface of lime plaster and sascab, which looked almost like cement.
		Large undressed stones form the bed, on which is spread a layer of smaller stones mixed with coarse sascab and, on top of this, another layer of fine sascab, of which only a few traces remain.
		Close to the road in many places are to be found pits or sascaberas from which it is possible that the sascab used in the paving was taken (Plate 7, a).
	www.mesoweb.com /publications/CAA/09_text.html (7655 words)

	Ticul Sculptor : TravelYucatan.com
		The clay he uses is barro, a natural terra cotta found in caves.
		He mixes this with stone dust to form a mixture called sascab, to which water is added.
		For a bowl or plate, Roger typically starts by flattening a chunk of clay by hand upon a wheel, or kabal.
	www.travelyucatan.com /maya/ticul_sculptor.php (919 words)

	- Land Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By far the most profitable use of the land would be to mine the land for building materials that are in huge demand locally and in the USA.
		Due diligence should be done, but it has been determined that the material is present from just inches from the surface to up to 7 meters deep giving a potential volume of 21 million cubic meters of “sascab” without including the rock and limestone slab also present.
		Subdividing the land in lots starting at an acre with horse friendly amenities, access roads, commercial spaces and parks will have a huge impact in the region and will serve the demand for current and new residents of the region or as second homes for locals and foreign nationals.
	landincancun.com /page1/page1.html (739 words)

	Coba: So Near and Yet So Far \| Planeta
		After Wilma, the old road was under water for weeks and is presently being filled with sascab.
		Most likely few others will be there to share this with you, another benefit, as reaching the top does take some effort.
		This Maya city once covered 70 square kilometers and because of some 16 elevated sascab roads which spread out like spokes on a wheel with Coba at the center, archeologists believe it exercised economic control over the area.
	www.planeta.com /planeta/06/0603yucatan.html (883 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It terminates on the layer of white sascab, which is interpreted as natural decomposing bedrock..
		Lot 9 is white sascab decomposing limestone bedrock.
		Lot 7 is a 50cm test into the white sascab decomposing bedrock.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /archaeology/9502.htm (2223 words)

	<<TOC1>> Revised classification of the soils of Belize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The upper part of the limestone appears quite weathered and friable and is known as sascab which, is often capped by a thin crust of hard limestone(QuinonesandAllende, 1974; Darch, 1 981).
		Both sascab and carapace occur in the dark Yalbac Subsuite clays of Yaxa Suite on the older limestones to the south, but are not as extensive or pronounced.
		The soft sascab is usually capped by a continuous or fragmented carapace of harder limestone.
	www.sadl.uleth.ca /nz/collect/hdl/import/nri/nr37re/nr37re.htm (19421 words)

	Group Destination Services
		Its name means "ruffled waters", derived from the five lakes in the vicinity, and it is one of the oldest Mayan settlements on the peninsular.
		It also has the highest pyramid in the area and the greatest concentration of sascab (Mayan roads constructed from stone), both of which suggest a major city - yet the ruins were not discovered until the late 19th century.
		Even today, only a small fraction of the many structures in this vast site have been excavated and this, together with the remoteness and jungle setting, contribute to the feeling of exploring new ground.
	www.groupdestinationservices.com /arqueological_sites/Archeological_sites02.htm (190 words)

	Centro Ecologico: Akumal, Mexico, Ocean Research, Environmental Education, Sea Turtle Protection, Marine Research
		It is important, therefore, that the site chosen is able to contain such a spill and that the rock strata beneath the wetland be of very low permeability to prevent downward leaching.
		Because the proposed area is a quarry from which sascab has been mined, the forest cover has long since been removed and the local ecosystem once existing at the quarry site no longer exists.
		The floor of the quarry presently is covered with a thin layer of sascab left from recent quarry operations during the construction of the new highway in 1998 and 1999.
	ceakumal.org /8299fb4b0fe16109b2a5bccf2df86e2e/benvironmental_impact_statement.html (1756 words)

	The 1998 Season
		LA 763/2 is a celt on the surface near the S limit of the rock assemblage.
		N of Gann (see plan) was a hole cut from near ground surface into sascab, with 1 tapir (?) bone at a depth of 21 cm within it.
		The hole was filled above the bone with sascab fragments and soil, with a slight amount of ash (?) beneath the bone.
	www.belizecubadigs.com /field-work-98.html (6125 words)

	Reports Submitted to FAMSI - Jennifer Mathews - The Long and Winding Road: Regional Maya Sacbe, Yucatán ...
		The soil was shallow here and no natural stratigraphy was evident.
		Layers were excavated in 10 cm, and it soon became evident that a large amount of sascab (soft limestone); had been dumped in this area during the construction of the modern road just south of the test pit.
		We excavated through the fill to the soil and continued to bedrock at about 65 cm.
	www.famsi.org /reports/98027/section04.htm (554 words)

	Homes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The main, single-room house was then converted into a dormitory when hammocks were hung in the afternoon and at night.
		The floor in a Maya home was made of sascab: a foundation of gravel covered with white packed earth.
		The walls had a wood matrix that was surfaced with adobe, then whitened with lime.
	www.mrtravers.com /homes.html (344 words)

	Geology and ecology
		The collapse forms a 2-2½-m-deep, flat-bottomed depression with sharp edges and with scattered large pieces of the broken limestone surface.
		In places the edge of the collapse zone provides access to underground caves and to sascaberas — small mines that were a Maya source of rotted limestone (sascab) used for making stucco and mortar.
		The caves, with their possible religious significance, the sheltered, easily-defended sea access, and the variety of subsistence opportunities (slash-and-burn corn-farming, game animals, birds, fresh- and salt-water fish and molluscs) at Muyil may have made the site appealing to its early settlers.
	muyil.smv.org /geology_and_ecology.htm (1490 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Conversely, it may reflect the natural background "noise" of the degrading limestone caprock.
		Lots 9506a-11 and 12 from gray clay and sascab matrix contain Late Facet Hubul ceramic types.
		Lot 11 ceramics (n=24+) are small crumbs again, but one sherd probably is San Blas Red-on-Orange, a Late Facet Hubul diagnostic.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /archaeology/9506.htm (756 words)

	Puuc Route \| Planeta
		I don't know if Labna always has this few tourists or if this "throw-away" tourism year since the events of September 11 created the silence that awaited me there.
		After paying 27 pesos to the caretaker at the makeshift counter top which also doubled as her kitchen table, we walked through the trees along an old sacbe, or road, made from sascab, the lime gravel mixture mined by Mayans for a millenium to be used in exactly this same manner.
		The sacbe here was slightly elevated and situated among a haphazard grove of trees, some old, some newly planted.
	www.planeta.com /ecotravel/mexico/yucatan/tales/0204yucatan.html (896 words)

	More Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thanks again to Meghan and Sascab for answering my questions.
		I have a few more and any advice is appreciated.
		A Nalgene bottle (http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com) is really just a water bottle, but their plastics tend to not break as easily, and can withstand the daily heat.
	www.mayaresearchprogram.org /thread.cfm?threadid=269&messages=2 (117 words)

	[No title]
		The preserved section of Terrace Level 3 continued eastward until we stopped excavation, almost 10 m to the east of the western-most preserved edge of the roof terrace.
		The formal surface was a 15 cm thick and made of compact sascab with a finished plaster coating in places.
		As on the western side, this surface rolled up at its southern end to become the terrace face of the Terrace Level 4.
	maya.csuhayward.edu /yaxuna/6f4local.html (9037 words)

	Explorean Kohunlich Maya Riviera - Mexico - Honeymoon Vacations International
		Literally secluded in the rich fragrances and hues of the surrounding Maya paradise, The Explorean Kohunlich is located about 40 miles west of the Caribbean coastal city of Chetumal and less than 20 miles north of the Rio Hondo – Mexico’s natural border with Belize.
		From palapa thatched roofs, sascab flooring, and wide-open spaces, 40 Nature Suites are a contemporary re-creation of the classic Maya home where everything has a time-tested reason for being.
		Not only the suites but the entire resort was created using traditional architectural styles, construction techniques, and even local building materials.
	www.vacationsintl.com /Mexico/maya/Explorean.htm (485 words)

	Webpage_en_evol
		The ancient Maya, not caring much for the precision of joints, then covered the surfaces with plaster for uniformity.
		Plaster was produced by burning limestone into powder which was then mixed with calcitic sand (sascab) and tree resine (holol) for plasticity.
		The surfaces were finally painted with mineral and organic pigments such as hematite and indigo used to produce the two main colors: red and blue.
	www.mayafiles.com /en/evol/page3.html (735 words)

	Salem Press
		It should be noted that large numbers of raised roads or sacbeob ("white roads" or "white ways") made of stone also radiate throughout the site.
		The limestone that is ubiquitous in the region was used to construct the architecture, and plaster made of sascab, or soft limestone, that was quarried nearby covered the outside of the buildings.
		Structures often had elaborate masks and were painted in bright pigments such as red, green, yellow, and blue.
	salempress.com /Store/samples/great_events_from_history_middle_ages/great_events_from_history_middle_ages_building.htm (1670 words)

	Mexican Caribbean, Quintana Roo - Cancún at a glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rendering this narrow spit of land suitable for high-rise construction was a challenge.
		In the end 300 meters of lagoon were ‘reclaimed’ using sascab (limestone) as infill to create the future home of over 80 upscale hotels, shoppng centers, restaurants, golf courses, discos, various embarcaderos, a four-lane highway and all the rest.
		Downtown Cancún and the international airport are located on the mainland.
	www.caribemexico.com /english/destinations/cancun/cancun_at_glance (123 words)

	The Organization of Staple Crop Production in Middle Formative, Late Formative, and Classic Period Farming Households ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This study also found a relationship between household size and elaborate residential architecture.
		Corporate households used more sascab construction fill and built more platform structures than non-corporate households.
		Thus, the way households organized staple crop production was related to inter-household wealth differences.
	www.pitt.edu /~pittanth/grad/research/henderson.html (422 words)

	www.Playa.info - View Single Post - Pueblo Sacbe
		It is an odd site to pass one of these happy fellows in full traditional garb when hicking on a distant jungle path.
		For visible progress there is the ongoing clearing of trees for the roads and gradual laying of sascab giving access to the current block of lots we are promoting for sale.
		Four new wells have been drilled for water service to some of the existing homes.
	www.playa.info /playa-del-carmen-forum/10689-post6.html (632 words)

	Yucatan continued (with paragraph breaks for norman as requested : o )
		We elected not to use stages in this cave and just to have fun speeding around.
		Tortuga is located on the same property as Vaca Ha only much further into the jungle (about 10min drive on a two track sascab road).
		It was dark and we quickly suited up avoiding the mosquitoes (yep there were lots of those damn things at night).
	diver.net /bbs/messages3/26825.shtml (1961 words)

	Pueblo Sacbe - www.Playa.info
		The tours include a walk through the main Tohocu cenote park and back caves, and the Virgin of Guadeloupe cenote but exclude the Emerald and Cathederal cenotes.
		Quite a few of the roads in the first 44 hectares have been cut and leveled and sascab is being laid over the next few months.
		There are a number of homes under construction at the moment including Hari’s which is sure to be an interesting creation.
	www.playa.info /playa-del-carmen-forum/2139-pueblo-sacbe.html (4407 words)

	Great Escapes Traveler will setup all your traveling arrangements for various locations such as: Tennessee Civil War ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Trailbiking trekking cultural excursions kayaking rapelling birdwatching catamaran sailing archaelogical expeditions, photographic jungle safaris and star gazing
		From palapa thatched roofs, sascab flooring, and wide-open spaces, our Nature Suites are a contemporary re-creation of the classic Maya home where everything has a time-tested reason for being.
		Not only our suites but the entire resort was created using traditional architectural styles, construction techniques, and even local building materials.
	www.greatescapestraveler.net /mxexplorean.htm (460 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions, Residencias Reef Cozumel México (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		ROADWAYS –The road from the secondary highway to the gatehouse will be paved with a finished surface.
		The internal roads will be of the local compressed limestone – sascab- and, upon completion of the construction of all five buildings, will also be replaced by pavement.
		All roads will be 6 meters (20 feet) wide.
	www.residenciasreef.com /eng/faq.asp (1505 words)

	MexicoFile.com
		Thompson also discovered how the Maya built the pyramids.
		Near Chichen Itza he found shallow quarries with worked veins of sascab, the lime gravel mixture the Maya used as mortar.
		Scattered around the area he found hammer stones of calcite, pecking stones of flint, and smoothing stones that were no doubt used to produce flat surfaces on walls.
	www.mexicofile.com /explorerextraordinaireoftheyucatan.htm (1462 words)

	Real smart folks, but no wheel ,Dig It, Archaeology on Ambergris Caye, Belize by Herman Smith.
		Oddly enough, the Maya built roads, or more correctly, causeways.
		These roads, called "sacbeob," meaning "white roads" were constructed of limestone and paved with a natural lime cement called "sascab".
		Often as wide as ten to twelve feet and raised between a foot or so to as much as seven or eight feet above the ground, the sacbeob connected various areas of settlement.
	ambergriscaye.com /museum/digit4.html (688 words)

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