Supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have unearthed the oldest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize. The ...

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A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

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"For a long time, our understanding of the Mayan civilization was limited to an area of a few hundred square kilometers," Auld-Thomas explained. The data he and his colleagues scoured was first ...

But, several years later Auld-Thomas had an idea. He would use pre-existing surveys to find out if Maya civilizations could be located in these areas. "Scientists in ecology, forestry and civil ...

The research indicates that the dense population of Maya civilizations could not withstand climate issues, leading to their collapse from 800 AD onwards. Auld-Thomas theorizes that "the landscape ...

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“For the longest time,” Auld-Thomas said, “our sample of the Maya civilization was a couple of hundred square kilometers total. That sample was hard won by archaeologists who painstakingly ...