Arguably the most advanced civilization in the Americas, the empire once occupied what is now southern Mexico and northern Central America, including the countries of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador ...
“For the longest time,” Auld-Thomas said, “our sample of the Maya civilization was a couple of hundred square kilometers total. That sample was hard won by archaeologists who painstakingly walked over ...
Auld-Thomas saw an opportunity and decided to take a shot. He and his colleagues from Tulane University and Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History re-processed the 2013 lidar data ...