He plans to make a sacred altar for the Maya rain god, Cháak, in the hope that the lightning-wielding deity will nourish his crops and alleviate his village from extreme drought. He stops in his ...
speaking of his own team's independent space study of Mayan technology. Examples included corn-growing terraces, and catchments for conveying and storing water in drought conditions. Small ...
Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created by severe, prolonged drought. But new research led by Brandeis anthropologist Charles ...
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