### p64 underground storage has a variety of uses > A chultun is a bottle-shaped underground storage chamber built by the pre-Columbian Maya in southern Mesoamerica. Their entrances were surrounded by plastered aprons which guided rainwater into them during the rainy seasons. Most of these archaeological features likely functioned as cisterns for potable water. Some chultuns may have been used for storage of perishable food (like breadnuts) or for the fermentation of alcoholic beverages. After they were no longer useful, people filled them with human waste and remains. Water storage usually gets discussed as aqueducts and sewers but cisterns are equally important. - [[Domestic Storage Behavior in Mesoamerica#p64 underground storage has a variety of uses|View in Vault]]