Papers presented at the Conference on Ancient Maya Agriculture and Biological Resource Management, held Aug. 22-24, 1991, University of California, Riverside. 1. Introduction: New Perspectives on ...

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

Anabel Ford speaks with Zacarias Quixchan, a Maya whose ancestors were in the area when Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés traveled through the region in 1524. (Adelaide Sadler / El Pilar Project ...

In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband, Charles, flew across the Yucatán Peninsula. With Charles at the controls, Anne snapped photographs of the jungles just below. She wrote in ...

Yearbook (Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers), Vol. 22 (1996), pp. 41-50 (10 pages) Located in the northwest Yucatán Peninsula, Chunchucmil was a major, densely populated Maya center during ...

The pyramid-building Maya reigned over much of Central America. Today, descendants keep Maya history alive—a sign of resilience. This sculpture of the head of a Mayan warrior found in the Temple of ...

Volcanoes and jungle, a richly varied habitat / Nikolai Grube -- Cacao, the beverage of the gods / Nikolai Grube -- The origins of Maya civilization : the beginning of village life / Norman Hammond -- ...