🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient village
Puerto Escondido
Early Formative to Terminal Classic 1600 BCE–900 CE, peak Early-Middle Formative 1400–400 BCE · Preclassic Maya-adjacent (Ulúa Valley Formative, Ocotillo/Playón ↔ Olmec-linked)
Early village CR-372 in Lower Ulúa Valley suburbs of San Pedro Sula with continuous occupation 1600 BCE–900 CE; yielded earliest cacao residue in Mesoamerica (1150 BCE) in pottery, Olmec-style…