Archaeological Reconnaissance in Southeastern Campeche, México: 2002 Field Season Report

Los Tambores
The site, likewise in the Calakmul Biosphere, occupies slightly elevated lands several kilometers east-southeast of the abandoned chicle camp of Villahermosa and southwest of the aguada Los Tambores.

The largest structure, dominating a plaza to the south, consists of a 10 m high rectangular platform and the upper structure, which rises on the northern side of the platform to a height of about 20 m above the surrounding natural ground. The area to the east, up to a distance of about 400 m, is occupied by quadrangles with mounds up to 8 m high. Smaller mounds extend also to the north, west and south. Some Early Classic Tzakol pottery fragments were collected.

Some 100 m northwest of the main structure an uncommonly shaped chultun was found. Its opening is a rectangle of 1.6 m by 0.47 m (Figure 16), while the underground chamber, cut in the bedrock and also of rectangular ground plan, was evidently much wider; it is partly destroyed and filled with earth up to a distance of 1 m from the ceiling, but its smoothly cut walls and rounded corners can still be observed.

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