According to recently uncovered jungle etchings, the great Mayan 2012 Apocalypse myth is not only just that—the Mayan calendar actually allowed for octillions of years of world history. So, um, I ...

To the oil companies of northwestern Colombia, the Motilon Indians of the jungle-tangled mountains are an industrial hazard. The Motilones (mo-tee-loan-es) ambush trucks, shoot 6-ft. arrows through ...

Two Tulane researchers, Marcello A. Canuto and Francisco Estrada-Belli, were part of a team of researchers, including assistant professor of anthropology Thomas Garrison at Ithaca College and other ...

“A jungle, like a body, is a complex organism constructed of many parts which interact, which can be grouped and are yet dependent upon one another just as the skeleton, the nervous system, the blood ...

The earliest Maya settlements date to around 1800 BC in what is known as the Preclassic or Formative Period. These people were initially solely agricultural, growing crops like corn, beans, squash and ...

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