The Spanish invaders of Mexico called them cenotes. This came from a mishearing of the Maya word tz’onot, which was used to…
The Parkinson's Disease Society is looking for participants for their next sponsored trek…
CWA looks at how studying mites can reveal a lot about the fate of ancient civilisations…
Did the great Maya civilisation really collapse? Jim Aimers writes of the intriguing evidence from Lamanai, the splendid Maya site in northern…
The oldest known writing in the Americas has been discovered dating to 900 BC…
Calima and Malagana is a luxuriously-presented book that offers the fruits of nearly a quarter century of research in the Calima and…
Quest to find the great Wager wreck…
Digging Calima and its surrounding area, a bountiful corner of Colombia rich with pre-conquest treasures…
The mummified remains of two people form the Atacama desert may help shed light on ancient eye diseases…
Mexican footprints may hold the key to discovering the origins of human populations in the Americas…
This is the seventh edition of Coe’s Maya, a readable and enjoyable richly illustrated introduction to the New World civilisation. Here, the…
The preservation of Argentine fossilised footprints…
Current excavations and survey in the Roaring Creek valley in Belize bring to life an ancient Maya community…