We have also undertaken very intensive excavation in many of the monumental buildings and complexes that make up the site's epicenter.
The five complexes display variations in ritual program related to their associated monumental constructions; they also share certain characteristics.
Through the axial symmetry of the arterial roads the attention was thus focused upon a single block, that of the monumental forum-temple complex.
In all of this, the broad simple strokes of the heroic and monumental are absent.
Yet these monumental pointers to the past required a narrative framework in order to be understood.
However, this monumental construction process needs to be more specifically determined.
The archaeological correlations of such expressions of centralized organization are found in public buildings, par ticularly monumental architecture.
Monumental architecture was a symbol of this appropriation of nature and of man's mastery of the environment.
