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  • Exploring an ancestral Maya neighborhood

    Sep 9, 2022 9:00 am by Rachel Gill and Yifan Wang | Anthropology Graduate StudentsStudent Experiences
    Aerial photograph of what researchers believe is a community structure, like a church or recreation center. Credit: Photo copyright ©2022 VOPA and Belize Institute of Archaeology, NICH.

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    • Aerial photograph of what researchers believe is a community structure, like a church or recreation center. Credit: Photo copyright ©2022 VOPA and Belize Institute of Archaeology, NICH.

    'Families lived and worked here (from A.D. 250 - 600)... We know the Maya left forests in place because the animal bones we find here are of species that can only breed in the forest.'