Around 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, before the classic period of the Maya, people harvested tiny Pachychilus snails for food. “They would boil them and lop off the end of the shell and eat the ...

Migrants from south carrying maize were early Maya ancestors Date: March 23, 2022 Source: University of New Mexico Summary: Archaeologists show that a site in Belize was critical in studying the ...

A new study reveals that a mass migration of people may have been responsible for introducing the dietary staple maize to the Maya region in southeastern Mexico and northern Central America more ...

July 3 (UPI) --The preference for a maize-centric diet by Mayan elites may have left the ancient civilization more vulnerable to climate change, according to new research. To better understand the ...

Genomes from ancient Maya people reveal collapse of population and civilization 1,200 years ago; ... Many archeologists have assumed the Maya primarily grew corn, or maize, ...

Maize was certainly a primary focus of ritual and religious veneration by ancient Meso-American people, going back all the way before the Maya and even into the Olmec civilisation.' ...

Mayan God Hun Hunahpu. The Mayan maize god, named Hun Hunahpu, was one of the most important gods to the Mayan people. A sacred Mayan book, the Popol Vuh describes how the gods formed humans from ...

The study determined that Maya society saw a sharp increase in population that peaked around 730 A.D. at 19,000 people. According to researchers, the spike likely occurred thanks to the emergence ...

Mayan Myth And Mayhem. April 29, 2004. By Mark Jenkins. TODAY WE are awash in mythology. Every Westerner is able to mix and match from myriad sources, whether Norse epics, samurai films, the book ...

The statue is of the Mayan maize god. He was found in a pyramid-style temple in Copan in modern-day Honduras surrounded by many other maize gods. In Mayan mythology, the maize god was decapitated ...

But deep in the jungles of Belize, under the dry refuge of two rock shelters, the skeletons of people who died as many as 9,600 years ago have been exceptionally well preserved. Their bones offer ...