Mesoamerica is today subject to considerable territorial and political transformations. A newly published book emerges from these deep entanglements ...
In the Caribbean jungles of Quintana Roo, two Mayan brothers lived. They were fierce warriors. And they are still defending their land, in the forest of present-day Mexico.
Juicy tomatoes. Food such as chillies and tomatoes were gathered from the forest or grown in gardens. The Maya made a lot of cotton, which was spun, dyed and woven into textiles. Cotton seeds were ...
Tikal National Park is part of the vast Maya Forest, which stretches into bordering Mexico and Belize, and is situated in the Petén Province of Northern Guatemala. Nestled within the vast Maya ...
The Maya Forest is a concept created by scientists and conservationists in the 1990s to protect the tropical rainforest and the Mayan ruins found within in the borderlands of Belize, Guatemala and ...
Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancient Mayan ruins than ever before, which is no small feat considering how thick the forest is in the indigenous group's ancestral lands ...
In this paper, I discuss the outcomes of two forest wildlife management projects in one Maya community along the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in the state of Quintana Roo. Both projects ultimately ...
Situated at the base of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve spans 1.8 million acres of Mesoamerica’s Maya forest and is home to a diverse array of flora and fauna, such as the ...
a star cluster that was sacred to the ancient Mayans. The clean and contemporary, curved white structures float dramatically above the lush, verdant backdrop of the mangrove forest, creating a ...