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El Portón is a site of thePreclassicMesoamerican civilisation, literate and thought to beMaya.
It lies in the Salamá valley.
By 500 BCE, the inhabitants built terraces which allowed a more scalable population. They built temples (of earth). They dedicated the largest temple with "feasting, bloodletting, and burning of incense".
The inscriptions on a stele dateable via radiology to 400 BCE are likely in aMayan language; if so, it is the earliest such attestation.[1]
