Archeology in Belize

Mel Gibson's newest movie Apocalypto spurs added interest in ...

5 Feb 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) SOUTH STANN CREEK, Belize February 5, 2007 Regardless of the varying opinions (uproar) of how Mel Gibsons movie Apocalypto has portrayed a portion.

Dig Spotlight: The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project

20 Jan 2007 by Dan McLerran If you are searching for a high quality learning adventure in Mesoamerican archaeology, the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project will likely match your expectations. Located near the picturesque little town of San Ignacio ...

ARTstor: New Collaborations and more...

6 Mar 2007 by joy garnett ARTstor has reached an agreement with the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, through which ARTstor will distribute digital images related to Pre-Columbian archaeology, as well as images of Pre-Columbian, ...

The Archaeology of Agriculture

21 Nov 2006 by Will This includes most of the lowlands as well as parts of Belize. The archaeological evidence for intensive agriculture can be interpreted most prominently from the ancient remains of terraces, raised fields, and irrigation as well as ...

Belize Archeology

8 Jan 2007 by belize adventure BELIZE ARCHEOLOGY Altun Ha means “Water of the Rock, which is the Maya translation of the nearby village of Rockstone Pond. Altun Ha was strategically located as a trading center, about six miles from the coast. ...

The Hard Part of My Job

13 Mar 2007 by jlowe See, in Belize the sites we're working on are protected. They're in the middle of a huge ecological preserve, and digging them is theoretically the most destructive thing we do. CRM archaeology is known as salvage archaeology because ...

Archaeologist at Mayan Site had to Rely on Looters' Trenching

14 Feb 2007 At Yalbac, Lucero and her colleagues with the Valley of Peace Archaeology Project are faced with unraveling the riddle of three sets of pyramids and other structures surrounding three broad plazas in central Belize, all buried under ...

February Events

13 Feb 2007 by Gary C. Daniels, LostWorlds.org The East Texas Archeological Conference Robert R. Muntz Library University of Texas at Tyler Campus Tyler, Texas. http://www.txarch.org/activities/calendar.html February 10 and 11, 2007 The 35th Annual Midwest Conference on ...

Layout Design & Planning :: RE: Layout Worklog (Lots of pictures)

8 Mar 2007 My time as a student of archeology took me to Belize and Guatemala working at post classic Mayan sites. When Mayan pyramids and tombs become eveloped by the rain forrest, they take on the look of very symmetrical hills ( I have some ...

USA Today: If you have looters, make looter-aided archeology12 Feb 2007 by Charlie Petit
He reports on a New Mexico team’s resourcefulness at a Maya site in Belize. One of the research leaders described it at a seminar at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in DC. The angle Vergano found was the ...