A daily briefing of the archaeology and history of sites around the world.
La Blanca - Episode 336
A Maya site dating back to at least 250 AD, La Blanca probably served as a frontier post or trading center in support of a larger city.
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Tazumal - Episode 320
Tazumal is an awesome pre-Columbian Maya site in El Salvador. Learn about it today.
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Maya & Mexican Codices
Caitlin Davis (Caldwell University) joins Chris Sims at the 82nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver to talk about her presentation on the synthesis of Maya and Mexican art in Mesoamerican codices.
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Caitlin Davis
Email: cdavis@caldwell.edu
Blog - Caitlin Reddington Davis
7th century inscribed flask from Copan in Tazumal - Episode 062
Jeb Card tells us about the work he did with translating 7th century Mayan hieroglyphics on an inscribed flask found in Copan from Tazumal.
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Help Jamaal Crawford - Episode 061
Christopher Sims (of Go Dig a Hole, ArchaeoTech, CRM Archaeology) talks about someone very special to him and the AFAR field school on Maya archaeology in Belize - Jamaal Crawford.
Jamaal recently fell seriously ill with a life-threatening case of pneumonia. He and his family need help. Go to AFAR's donation page to send a tax-deductible gift.
- http://www.goafar.com/
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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.
