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==Population== {{Maya civilization}} Surveys have revealed an average of 436 structures per square kilometer (1118 per square mile) in the site core, falling to 244 structures/km<sup>2</sup> (626/square mile) in the periphery.<ref>Sharer & Traxler 2006, p. 686.</ref> At its height in the Late Preclassic, the population has been estimated at 1600 in the site core with a further 8000 dispersed through the periphery, to produce an estimated total population of almost ten thousand.<ref>Sharer & Traxler 2006, p. 688.</ref> In the Early Classic the population suffered a severe decline,<ref>Sharer & Traxler 2006, p. 690.</ref> population is estimated to have dropped to 34% of peak population.<ref>Sharer & Traxler 2006, p. 689.</ref> In the Late to Terminal Classic the population increased to 85% of its Late Preclassic level, an expansion that appears to have occurred rapidly and spread to all parts of the site,<ref>Sharer & Traxler 2006, p. 689. Tourtellot & González 2005, p. 73.</ref> perhaps as the result of an influx of refugees arriving from other sites around AD 830.<ref>Webster 2002, p. 278.</ref> This was followed by a population crash to 14% of peak Preclassic population in the Early Postclassic (AD 900–1200) prior to the complete abandonment of the site.<ref>Sharer & Traxler 2006, p. 689.</ref> ===Social Stratification=== The social stratification of Seibal was that of priest-kings, as well as nobility and elites living in the main ceremonial center, with the common people living in the peripheries of the city. During the 1964-68 excavations, 34 of the 45 found burials were from the peripheral zone, showing the distribution of population by class.<ref>Willey and Smith 1975-1990.</ref>
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