All Articles Tagged As: mayans
Professor uses novel approach to study Zapotec culture
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 | NASA, lasers, the rainforest canopy and Maya ruins sound like the ingredients for the next Hollywood blockbuster. ...> Full Article |
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.
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 | By studying monumental Maya stone sculptures from the fifth through eighth centuries in Mexico and Central America, anthropologist looks for clues to how civilizations put their own spin on the past for religious, political or other reasons ...> Full Article |
 | Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica from about A.D. 300 to 1500. ...> Full Article |
 | An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya temples. ...> Full Article |
 | Ancient Mayan temple builders discovered and used lustrous pigments to make their buildings dazzle in the daylight, a Queensland University of Technology researcher has discovered. ...> Full Article |
 | New study is the first to document ancient hunting effects on large-game species in the Maya lowlands of Central America, and shows political and social demands near important cities likely contributed to their population decline, especially white-tailed deer. ...> Full Article |
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