Editing Altun Ha (section)

==Etymology==

According to the Belize Institute of Archaeology, the site's name means "Rockstone Water," and is a [[Yucatec Maya language|Yucatec Mayan]] approximation of the name of the nearby village of [[Rockstone Pond]].<ref name=NICH>{{cite web |url=http://nichbelize.org/ia-maya-sites/archaeology-of-altun-ha.html |title=Archaeology of Altun Ha |author=Belize. National Institute of Culture and History, Institute of Archaeology |access-date=15 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214022429/http://nichbelize.org/ia-maya-sites/archaeology-of-altun-ha.html |archive-date=14 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In Yucatec Mayan, ''haltun'' is a stone water deposit or cistern, and ''ha'' means water.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bolles| first= David|year=2001 |title=Combined Dictionary–Concordance of the Yucatecan Mayan Language |publisher=Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI)|url=http://www.famsi.org/reports/96072/|access-date=May 16, 2013}}</ref> An ancient emblem glyph for the site has been identified, but its phonetic reading is not currently known.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bíró|first=Péter |year=2012 |title=Politics in the Western Maya Region (II): Emblem Glyphs|journal=Estudios de Cultura Maya|location=Mexico, Mexico|publisher=[[UNAM|Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]], Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas |volume=XXXIX|page=57|issn=0185-2574|oclc=1568280}}</ref>