The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient
Maya on the market today. This classic book has been updated by distilling the latest …

Maize is a cultigen of global economic importance, but when it first became a staple grain in
the Americas, was unknown and contested. Here, we report direct isotopic dietary evidence …

The genetic prehistory of human populations in Central America is largely unexplored
leaving an important gap in our knowledge of the global expansion of humans. We report …

Many humans live in large, complex political centers, composed of multi-scalar communities
including neighborhoods and districts. Both today and in the past, neighborhoods form a …

Mangroves are among the world's most threatened ecosystems. Understanding how these
ecosystems responded to past natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change is …

In order to find out about and discuss the peopling of the Americas, there is evidence that
comes from a range of scientific disciplines. In archaeology, stone tool vestiges are one of …

To variable degrees, inequality is present in all human societies, but how archaeologists
measure inequality varies greatly. In recent research, we used the same unit of analysis …

Access to social capital and valued resources modulates household decision-making as
people seek to occupy the best-quality patches of land available. Prior occupancy …

Abstract Archaeological evidence from Late Pleistocene sites in South America indicates
that human populations moved into and through the lower isthmian land-bridge by at least …

The Archaic period has not been as widely studied in Mesoamerica as it has been in other
parts of the Americas. This problem stems from intractable issues such as low …