A daily briefing of the archaeology and history of sites around the world.
Zacpeten - Episode 353
Zacpeten is a Mayan city located on a peninsula on the shores of Lake Salpeten in the Peten Department (which are the equivalent US states) of northern Guatemala. The city went through several cycles of habitation and abandonment over its active lifespan.
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Machaquila - Episode 346
Machaquila was once a city of monuments. Now it stands as a monument to looters and the encroaching world around it.
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Lithics of the Maya Commoners - Episode 031
Phyllis Johnson, a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University, talks about her research on micro-debitage and use-wear analysis on a Maya site in Guatemala.
