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Teotihuacan in the northeastern Basin of Mexico was an unusually large and influential
early city and state. This article reviews recent research trends in Teotihuacan from its …

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 …

When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century AD,
inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise …

Eight human interments were excavated in the 1990s beneath the Acropolis at the Classic
Maya site of Copan in Honduras, which was the capital of a Maya kingdom from ca. AD 400 …

Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian
conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their …

To provide some insights into the nature and role of warfare in the rise, development, and
decline of Classic Maya civilization, this article discusses spear, dart, and arrow points used …

The advent of social complexity has been an important topic of longstanding debate among
social scientists. 1 While many of the early models for social complexity were predicated on …

This paper focuses on the discoveries of the last decade in Maya archaeology, and
assesses their impact on previous models and synthetic frameworks. Although the …

In anthropological models of social organization, kinship is perceived to be fundamental to
social structure. This project aimed to understand how individuals buried in neighborhoods …