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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How did military conflict fit into the end of a mighty civilization? AP Photo/Moises Castillo Two trophy skulls, discovered by ...
A large, charred deposit containing royal human remains and ornaments found inside a Maya temple-pyramid was likely part of a "dramatic and public ritual" during a regime change. Archaeologists ...
A recent study by Dr. Angelina Locker published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology implemented bioarchaeological methods to determine if the secondary burial remains found within a ...
Outgrowth of a symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 2005. New perspectives on human sacrifice and postsacrifical body treatments in ancient Maya society / ...
In 2017, archaeologist Jacob Welch was conducting excavations at Ucanha, a site on the Yucatán Peninsula near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, when he came across an enormous Maya mask sculpted out of ...