WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central ...
An extensive network of ancient fish traps, dating back 4,000 years, was discovered in the wetlands of Belize's Crooked Tree ...
Researchers doing reconnaissance in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary CTWS where they discovered evidence of a large-scale ...
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4,000-year-old pre-Mayan fish-trapping facility found, helped feed 15,000 peopleThe network directed the annual flood waters into a source pool where they could trap thousands of fish, able to feed a ...
Archaeologists have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary (CTWS), the largest inland ...
An archaeologist from the University of New Hampshire and her team have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian ...
On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.
Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary (CTWS), the largest inland wetland in Belize, the team dated the construction of these fisheries to the Late Archaic period (cal. 2000-1900 BCE ...
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