Jade Skirt: Us Maya have really healthy diets. As well as the maize, beans and squash we grow to eat, we also produce cotton to make cloth and flowers for decoration. We hunt deer, fish and birds ...

Farming was at the centre of ancient Maya life. But these people are also remembered for other amazing creations, like their spectacular buildings and beautiful objects made from jade, a rare and ...

Within their survey area, researchers found dramatic variations in how the ancient Maya modified their environment ...

Now Montero was yelling and whooping, and the farmers were lowering first a rubber ... in the beliefs and world vision of the ancient Maya of Yucatán. Archaeologists had known that the Maya ...

A new book takes readers on a guided tour of Maya history as narrated by an anthropologist who has spent more than 35 years ...

In my book, "Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatán," I trace the deep history of the Maya milpa. Using archaeology, I show how ancient ...