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 ...

Now Montero was yelling and whooping, and the farmers were lowering first a rubber ... in the beliefs and world vision of the ancient Maya of Yucatán. Archaeologists had known that the Maya ...

Farmers and cattle ranchers rushed in ... in the form of animal bones or charred snail shells; or human remains. The ancient Maya feel alive everywhere you look. Golden, wearing moisture-wicking ...

In my book, “Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatán,” I trace the deep history of the Maya milpa. Using archaeology, I show how ...