Claude F. Baudez and Pierre Becquelin, 1967-1969 Los Naranjos is the name for an archaeological region in western Honduras.

[1] It is significant to the region because of its implications for determining where the Mayan frontier existed, as well as which ancient peoples were in contact and what relations between "tribes" may have been like.

[citation needed] According to the artistic recreations of what it might looked like, it has come to be known that several pyramids were covered with mainly reddish and white stucco, similar to many structures throughout Mesoamerican history.

[citation needed] In 1935, Frans Blom and Jens Yde [da] conducted an excavation of a large mound at Los Naranjos.

Various antiquities found at the site include jade figurines, clay pottery and a jadeite hand axe, many of which suggest relation to Olmec influence in mesoamerica during the time.

[5] In 2005, a new excavation program began to study the origin and development of the ancient city of Los Naranjos.

Also in the low or swampy area, several wells were dug to study the ancient diet, especially the agriculture of this site.

Archaeologist and historians attribute the setting of the cave as part of a common motif, incorporating ideas of the first humans and genesis of humankind.

[7] The site contained two large ditches, one that stretched from Lake Yojoa to a pool just north of an encampment, made during the Jaral phase.

[citation needed] The Lake Yojoa region of Honduras lies about 80 kilometres (50 mi) from what was defined as a probable boundary of the Maya territories.

[8] It is presumed that the people of Los Naranjos spoke Lenca, a language that is indigenous to Honduras and El Salvador.

[10] It appears that the people of Los Naranjos had temporal variations in cultural relations with other Mesoamerican societies.

Strata from the Late Classic Period, however, revealed that half of the pottery that the people used was of Maya relation.