Archaeologists used to dig primarily at sites that were easy to find thanks to obvious visual clues. But technology – and listening to local people – plays a much bigger role now.
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Grisly war trophies made from the heads of vanquished enemies certainly grab attention. But archaeologists are more interested in what they may tell about a tumultuous time of shifting political power.
Many people think climate change caused Classic Maya civilization to collapse abruptly around 900 A.D. An archaeologist says that view is too simplistic and misses the bigger point.
Decades after the end of a civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the survivors' search for justice goes on.
Indigenous people from around the world revere certain traditional foods as sacred. Activists, scholars and chefs are revitalizing these food systems.
Fuego and other volcanoes are considered sacred in the Maya culture, but forced Spanish colonisers to move their new capital city.
After colonisation, dispossession and decades of military violence, indigenous women in Guatemala are closing in on justice at last.
Technology which located Mayan cities has been used to rediscover a southern African city from the 15th century.
The handful of Maya books through which we know about their civilisation grows one larger as archaeologists confirm Grolier codex as genuine.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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Senior Law Lecturer in Transitional Justice and Human Rights, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology, UCL
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana
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PhD Candidate in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in History, De Montfort University
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez Hills
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
