Abstract

The Castillo (also known at the Temple of Kukulkan) is one the most iconic structures in Mesoamerica. This temple-pyramid towers over the main plaza of the civic-ceremonial city of Chichen Itza, which once dominated the political and economic landscape of the northern Maya lowlands. Reported here are the preliminary results of a multimodal and multiresolution scanning campaign and fusion of 3D data outputs intended to more accurately record the physical attributes of the earlier temple-pyramid inside the Castillo, known as the Castillo-sub, and examine the spatial and architectonic relationships between the two structures. A focus of our scanning campaign involved the upper façades of the sub-temple and the Chacmool and jaguar throne sculptures inside the sub-temple itself. Structured-light scans of the upper façades now serve as the definitive representation of this portion of the Castillo-sub.

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Title
A Reexamination of the Substructure Inside the Castillo at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
Author
Rissolo, Dominique 1 ; McAvoy, Scott P. 1 ; Stanton, Travis W. 2 ; Garcia-Solis, Claudia 3 ; Gallegos Flores, Jesus Manuel 3 ; Osorio León, José Francisco Javier 3 ; Pérez Ruiz, Francisco 3 ; Meacham, Samuel S. 4 ; Kuester, Falko 1 

 Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative, University of California, San Diego, USA 
 Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, USA 
 Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico 
 Centro Investigador del Sistema Acuífero de Quintana Roo, Mexico 
Pages
1303-1308
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
ISSN
16821750
e-ISSN
21949034
Source type
Conference Paper
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3256791417
Copyright
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