Study counters ideas about Mayan elite craftworks
It’s easy to get carried away romanticizing the cushy lives of the fabulously wealthy, even those who lived in exotic…
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Peruvian mummy lice may give clues about human migration
Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of…
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Mother Sea Turtle
An archaeological site in the Caribbean provides prehistoric evidence of overhunting green sea turtles. The Cayman Islands, just south of…
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Bone collectors and sacred trash
To the Maya, throwing away the bones of hunted animals is as wasteful as throwing away the entire animal itself….
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Catch of the day
Contrary to our current dilemma, the Taino always knew where their fish came from “Here, the fishes are so unlike…
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Maya politics likely played role in ancient large game decline
When Kitty Emery goes hunting for large-game, she doesn’t have to wait for the right season, because the animals that…
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Bahamas’ first national heritage park
Nestled in a dry tropical forest on the western shores of New Providence Island the Clifton plantation has for centuries…
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Early Columbus settlement was desperate to find metals
A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus’ first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from…
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Old Spanish mission found near Gainesville
Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of…
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Armageddon at postclassic Mayapan
Atlantean columns with the heads lopped off are evidence of a catastrophic revolt at Mayapan. Archaeologists from the Carnegie Institution…
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