The use of water cisterns has been traced back to the Neolithic Age; this paper thus presents
a brief historical development of water cisterns worldwide over the last 5500 years. This�…

Recent decipherments of Classic Maya hieroglyphs (ca. ad 250 to 850) reveal phonological
and morphological patterns that, through epigraphic and historical analyses, isolate a single�…

An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic In October 1962, a set of
blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse�…

The term “Protoclassic,” employed regularly but inexplicitly in the literature of lowland Maya
archaeology, has become increasingly nebulous and ambiguous in both meaning and�…

In this paper we summarize more than a decade of interdisciplinary work at Calakmul,
including (1) the mapping project, which has covered more than 30 km2;(2) the excavation�…

Anchored in archaeological, bioarchaeological, and chemical research conducted at the
coastal enclave of Xcambo, this paper examines Classic period Maya coastal saline�…

In this chapter we present the major transitions in Maya history from the Late Preclassic
through Terminal Classic periods in the Maya Lowlands, focusing first on major settlement�…

Traditionally, research on the Preclassic Maya has focused on settlements found in the
Southern Maya Lowlands. Apart from work at a few well-known archaeological sites in the�…

The three modern Mexican states of Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo compose
roughly half of the Maya area. The northern Maya lowlands, whose southern boundary runs�…

Assumptions concerning the late dating of Middle Formative ceramics in the northern Maya
lowlands and similarities between this region and areas to the south underlie mainstream�…