Among the rocks and marine fossils, scientists have found fossilized pollen from the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene periods that reflects changes in the surrounding ecosystems. The pollen reveals ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

The Aztecs didn't discover obsidian. It was already the most common raw material in Mesoamerica when they arrived in the ...

Why No One Talks About India’s Pyramid-Like Structures Introduction: The Pyramid Obsession When someone mentions the word ...

Traditionally, excavations deep in the jungles of Mexico, Central, and South America are difficult at best and dangerous at worst. With rough terrain, violent storms, and the watchful eyes of local ...

Ancient civilizations in much ... sap-like fluid found in some plants. Mesoamerica extends roughly from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua (regional map). Ancient rubber makers harvested ...

The survey used light detection and ranging (lidar) technology, a remote-sensing method that sends thousands of laser pulses from an aircraft to map objects ... that the Maya civilization was ...

but these fish traps were built at least 700 years before this civilization's rise to prominence in the region. "The early dates for the canals surprised us initially because we all assumed these ...

built just before the Maya civilization rose to prominence. Harrison-Buck and her fellow archeologists used drones and Google Earth data to map 108 kilometers of ancient channels that zigzag ...

Archaeologists have long known that the Maya Lowlands, in the southernmost region of Mexico, harbors ancient urban settings ... to create a topographic map for archaeological purposes.

He would use pre-existing surveys to find out if Maya civilizations could be located ... The previous team's aim was to map above-ground carbon in forests. The publicly available dataset allowed ...