All Articles Tagged As: central america

Research Project Uses Technology to Revolutionize Archaeology (5/11/2008)

NASA, lasers, the rainforest canopy and Maya ruins sound like the ingredients for the next Hollywood blockbuster. ...> Full Article

Sunflower Debate Ends In Mexico, Researchers Say (5/3/2008)

Ancient farmers were growing sunflowers in Mexico more than 4,000 years before the Spaniards arrived ...> Full Article

URI analysis of rare textiles from Honduras ruins suggests Mayans produced fine fabrics (4/19/2008)

Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement. ...> Full Article

Floating a big idea (3/22/2008)

Researcher demonstrates pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods ...> Full Article

Chocolate drinks - probably fermented ones - popular long before previously thought, says anthropologist (11/19/2007)

Mesoamerican menus featured cacao beverages - probably fermented ones - at least as early as 1100 B.C., some 500 years earlier than previously documented anywhere, according to new research published in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article