Editing Copán (section)

===Predynastic history===
The fertile Copán River valley was long a site of agriculture before the first known stone architecture was built in the region about the 9th&nbsp;century BC. The city was important before its refounding by a foreign elite; mentions of the predynastic history of Copán are found in later texts, but none of these predates the refounding of the city in AD&nbsp;426.<ref name="Sharer & Traxler 2006, p. 333; Martin & Grube 2000, p. 193"/> There is an inscription that refers to the year 321&nbsp;BC, but no text explains the significance of this date.<ref name="Martin & Grube 2000, p. 193">{{harvnb|Martin|Grube|2000|p=193}}.</ref> An event at Copán is linked to another event that happened 208&nbsp;days before in AD&nbsp;159 at an unknown location that is also mentioned on a stela from Tikal, suggesting that it is a location somewhere in the Petén Basin, possibly the great Preclassic Maya city of [[El Mirador]].<ref name="Sharer & Traxler 2006, p. 333"/> This AD&nbsp;159 date is mentioned in several texts and is linked to a figure known as "Foliated [[Ajaw]]". This same person is mentioned on the carved skull of a [[peccary]] recovered from Tomb&nbsp;1, where he is said to perform an action with a stela in AD&nbsp;376.<ref name="Martin & Grube 2000, p. 193"/>