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Outgrowth of a symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 2005. New perspectives on human sacrifice and postsacrifical body treatments in ancient Maya society / ...

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In the depths of Yaakun, a cenote in Playa del Carmen in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, what are believed to be ancient human and animal remains, along with three Maya ceramic vessels, were ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...

In 2017, archaeologist Jacob Welch was conducting excavations at Ucanha, a site on the Yucatán Peninsula near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, when he came across an enormous Maya mask sculpted out of ...