Jade Skirt: Us Maya have really healthy diets. As well as the maize, beans and squash we grow to eat, we also produce cotton to make cloth and flowers for decoration. We hunt deer, fish and birds ...

Farming was at the centre of ancient Maya life. But these people are also remembered for other amazing creations, like their spectacular buildings and beautiful objects made from jade, a rare and ...

The new findings differ from what was found when other ancient Maya regions were examined with lidar. Some large ancient cities in Belize were surrounded by terraces built for agriculture, while ...

Largely the result of ancient agricultural and forestry practices of the Maya, they combine complex processes of human selection and the regeneration of natural systems. Traditional management ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

In 700-800 C.E., the ancient Maya would ascend a stairway to a temple at the pyramid ... milpa farms (a traditional method of sustainable agriculture), and rugged limestone hills. It serves as a main ...

Agriculture was long thought to be the biggest ... they were used by pre-Maya people and their descendants. The ancient Maya continued to use them between 2000 B.C.E. and 200 C.E. Sign up for ...

Together with historical data from transcribed Maya hieroglyphic ... traditional Maya craft work and agriculture – and conducting Maya rituals with links to ancient Maya practices.