Kabaah was abandoned or at least no new ceremonial architecture built for several centuries before the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.

All three of these islands were densely occupied, with all construction except the ceremonial architecture being aligned according to the local topography.

Key differences included brown-paste coil-and-scrape pottery, deeply excavated semisubterranean "pithouses" and different ceremonial architecture.

During this Moche period some ceremonial architecture was constructed.

The Preclassic Era or the Formative Period saw the rise of large-scale ceremonial architecture, writing, cities, and states.

The majority of the structures are residential in nature but La Trinidad has an unusual amount of ceremonial architecture for such a small site.

While the shoin style was suitable for ceremonial architecture, it became too imposing for residential buildings.

The major ceremonial architecture of the East Group was built in the Early Classic.

Archaeological evidence shows the Maya started to build ceremonial architecture approximately 3,000 years ago.

Tazumal includes a series of Maya ruins, including ceremonial architecture, which date to about AD 100-1200.