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Discovered: 4,000-year-old canals used by predecessors of ancient Maya

November 25, 202487 Views

Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize. The findings were published Friday in Science Advances. “The aerial imagery was crucial to identify this really distinctive pattern of zigzag linear canals” running for several miles through wetlands, said study co-author Eleanor Harrison-Buck of the University of New Hampshire. This 2019 photo provided by the Belize River East Archaeology project, researchers excavate sediment that will be sequenced to help them date the evidence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility in Belize. (Belize River Ea...

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Migrants from south carrying maize were early Maya ancestors

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March 25, 2022312 Views

New research published this week by University of New Mexico archaeologist Keith Prufer shows that a site in Belize was critical in studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple food. According to the paper South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region, published this week in Nature Communications and co-led by Prufer, excavations in Belize, along with ancient DNA analysis, indicate a previously unknown migration of people–carrying maize–from an area of South America northward to the Maya region. Scientists excavate findings at the Belize Rock Shelter Site. Prufer and his colleagues excavated 25 burials dating from 10,000 to 3,700 years ago from two cave or rock shelter sites located in the rem...

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Blue Print: Belize offers to protect reef in exchange for debt relief

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November 6, 2021684 Views

Belize provided a likely 'blue' model for conserving some of the world's most vulnerable marine ecosystems on Friday, swapping a promise to protect the northern Hemisphere's biggest barrier reef for much-needed debt relief. While urgent efforts to limit global warming are expected to see at least half a trillion dollars of 'green' bonds this year, 'blue' bonds are still in their infancy, despite estimates that oceans contribute around $3 trillion per year to global GDP. Financial incentives have been one of the main pillars of efforts at the United Nations COP26 climate change summit to tackle rising temperatures, with demands from poorer countries for increased help from richer states. An undated photo shows the effect of "bleaching" on coral off Caye Caulker, Belize. REUTERS/Su...