The measure of the “Mayacene,” a microcosm of the Early Anthropocene that occurred from
c. 3000 to 1000 BP, comes from multiple Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records. We …

The Mexico and Central American region has a history of mercury use that began at least
two millennia before European colonisation in the 16th century. Archaeologists have …

Open spaces are an integral part of past urban settlement worldwide. Often large and devoid
of visible traces of past activities, these spaces challenge mainstream archaeological …

Archaeological prospection through remote sensing is based on the contrast between areas
of archaeological interest and their surroundings. It has been used as the cheapest and the …

In order to take full advantage of the archaeological information contained within buried
archaeological sites, it is important to apply an integrative approach combining …

Nearly two decades of research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico documented a thriving
city of 40,000 people without the powerful kings and massive temples seen at other Maya …

Geoarchaeological and archaeobotanical techniques are increasingly applied to the study
of urban and domestic space. However, they are seldom performed as part of an integrative …

Field portable/hand-held x-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analyzers have been characterized as
potentially useful for archaeological site prospection, but little has been published on the …

Trace and rare earth elements from a sediment core from Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala)
depict the geochemical dynamics affecting the lake from∼ 5500 a BP to the present. This …

This report describes the results of a geochemical analysis using a mild acid extraction and
inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy of 198 samples from plaster surfaces at the …