Space and Time in the Formative Period: Some Final Reflections

Abstract

These final reflections stress the relevance of this substantial collection of papers presented in both volumes of the Boletín. Monumental architecture is particularly important with early beginnings, long construction sequences, and, as such, testimony of local histories, identities and memories. It transmits cosmological and cosmogonic ideas as ceremonial centers and organizes the landscape, and thus can be defined as central places in an economic, political and social sense. As such, it is of major relevance to the establishment of interaction spheres.