Jaguar have always disregarded national borders, but some threats are keeping the big cats contained within the territories that they inhabits. The spread of extensive monoculture plantations, illegal ...

According to UNESCO, it was one of the most powerful cultural centers in Mesoamerica and the city extended its cultural and artistic influence throughout the region. Animals were also revered in ...

LiDAR was the key technology that enabled Ramón Celis to uncover the full scale of Guiengola. Unlike traditional ...

All communication relies on a code of sorts, a combination of symbols, sounds or gestures that — once there is a common ...

Mesoamerica is today subject to considerable territorial and political transformations. A newly published book emerges from these deep entanglements ...

The report stresses that these positive signs amount to a small step forward in a massively affected and vulnerable region, and the Mesoamerican Reef’s “overall health remains ‘poor.’” ...

It is home to one of the most important ceremonial landscapes in Mesoamerica and was once the most influential metropolis in the region. Nearly 2,000 years later, Sugiyama, an assistant professor ...

The project examines the role of religious belief and practice in the development of centralized polities in Formative Mesoamerica. The project will focus on a comparison of the role of religion in ...

Anthony Aleman’s colorful journals. (Provided by the Vicki Myhren Gallery) They were particularly important in Mesoamerica, the region that includes Mexico and several countries to its south.