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October 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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The Nebaj Plate
carved jade
Maya
600 CE
Guatemala

Called by some, "the finest example of jade carving ever found"!

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A Maya carved jade plaque from Nebaj in Guatemala, depicting a Maya king with a headdress sitting on a throne and paying attention to a little person to the left of the scene, who is shown with crossed arms, the sign of greeting and respect. Late Classic period, c. AD 600-800.⁣
May 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Beneath the mangroves of Belize, archaeologists found a Maya household frozen in peat—its salt kitchens intact. The find reshapes what we know about invisible labor and ancient trade. #MayaArchaeology #SaltEconomy #Anthropology #Belize www.anthropology.net/p/the-saltma...
The Saltmakers Beneath the Sea
A submerged Maya household reveals how everyday labor sustained ancient trade and power in the Classic world
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October 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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. . PNAS, JAS, JAMT, and PLOS ONE. #Archaeology #MayaArchaeology #Lidar #RemoteSensing #GIS #HouseholdArchaeology #HumanBehavioralEcology #BelizeArchaeology #Copan #Inequality #CommunityArchaeology #NSFFunded #GeospatialScience #PNAS
September 30, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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1,600-year-old tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, Caracol’s first Maya ruler, reveals early diplomatic ties with Teotihuacan. A jade mask, obsidian blades, and pan-Mesoamerican ritual clues change the narrative. #MayaArchaeology #Teotihuacan #Belize #AncientHistory
The King Beneath the Acropolis: What a 1,600-Year-Old Tomb in Belize Reveals About Maya Power and Foreign Diplomacy
The tomb of Caracol’s first ruler, Te K’ab Chaak, offers new clues about Maya diplomacy, ritual, and empire-building at the edge of Mesoamerica.
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July 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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A colonnaded open hall at Ucanal, Guatemala reveals how Maya governance shifted from enclosed palaces to transparent public buildings during the Terminal Classic collapse — and who that shift was for. #Archaeology #AncientMaya #MayaArchaeology @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-k...
When the King’s House Lost Its Walls: A New Building Form and the Reinvention of Maya Politics
At Ucanal, Guatemala, a colonnaded open hall excavated in 2024 reveals how architectural transparency became a political tool during one of the Maya world’s most turbulent centuries.
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April 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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New lidar analysis reveals that the Maya Lowlands may have supported up to 16 million people in a vast urban network. Rethinking rurality and resilience in Classic Maya civilization. #MayaArchaeology #Lidar #Anthropology #Urbanism
A Forest of Cities: Rethinking the Population and Planning of the Ancient Maya Lowlands
Lidar Reveals a Civilization Built on Carbohydrates, Civic Order, and Dense Forest Settlements
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August 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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From cooking and food preparation to ritual and craft production, the traces of everyday activities provide a unique window into the lives of non-elite Maya families.

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Traces of Daily Life: Household Archaeology and Chemical Residue Analysis at Classic Maya Chinikihá – Flavio G. Silva
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June 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Late Postclassic Maya pilgrims kept returning to cities abandoned for centuries, resetting broken stelae and leaving incense burners. New excavations in Belize found the region’s first documented Postclassic altar. #Archaeology #MayaArchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/pilgrim-ci...
Pilgrim Cities: The Postclassic Maya and the Ritual Life of Abandoned Places
What archaeologists found at two ruined sites in Belize says something strange about how the Maya remembered their own past
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June 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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A crumbling 2nd-century stone monument in Campeche just rewrote Maya history. New 3D scanning reveals what may be the earliest Long Count date in the Maya lowlands — and it’s linked to a specific king’s accession. Calendar as political tool. #MayaArchaeology #AncientMaya #Mesoamerica
The Oldest Clock in the Lowlands: How a Crumbling Stone in Campeche Rewrote the Origins of Maya Kingship
A second-century monument at El Palmar pushes back the earliest known Long Count date by more than a century — and reveals something stranger: a ruler who weaponized the calendar itself
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June 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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New research on Maya reservoirs at Ucanal shows near-pristine biological water quality for 1,500 years — and toxic mercury in every sample. They managed what they could see. The rest was invisible. #MayaArchaeology #Archaeometry #AncientWater www.anthropology.net/p/what-maya-...
What Maya Reservoir Sediments Reveal About Sanitation, Mercury, and Urban Life at Ucanal
A new geochemical study finds ancient Maya water managers succeeded at what they could see and failed at what they couldn't.
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March 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM