Maya archaeology and landscape studies focus on understanding the ancient Maya civilization through their settlements, social structures, and the environments they inhabited. Recent research in ...

“Lidar is teaching us that, like many other ancient civilizations, the lowland Maya built a diverse tapestry of towns and ...

But new research led by Brandeis anthropologist Charles Golden and Andrew Scherer, associate professor of anthropology at Brown University, found signs that communities in the Western Maya Lowlands of ...

The landscape, near already-known Maya cities, is thought to have been ... more than 5,000 sq miles (14,000 sq km) of Guatemala's lowlands. The project's discoveries will feature in a Channel ...

The study supports the notion of a "populous and urban ancient Maya landscape" in the examined ... waiting to be discovered ...