Art in the Amazon
At a time of great climatic and environmental change during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, humans entered the western Amazon for the first time. As they adapted to the unknown...
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Excavations in Mexico City have discovered a new section of the Aztec skull rack known as the Huei Tzompantli. The post ‘Tower of skulls’ in Tenochtitlan’ appeared first on World Archaeology.
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Peru
Roughly 1,000 years ago, the finishing touches were being made to a rectangular length of fabric. At first glance, the textile resembles a modern tablecloth, but a slit in the centre betrays that it...
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The Great Maya Aquifer
The Spanish invaders of Mexico called them cenotes. This came from a mishearing of the Maya word tz’onot, which was used to describe great circular sinkholes that dropped down to inviting pools of...
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