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. We already know ...

Archaeologists, with the help of drones and Google Earth imagery, have discovered 4,000-year-old canals in Belize that were once used by the predecessors of the ancient Mayans to catch freshwater fish ...

A 76-year-old hiker discovered a 1,500-year-old reindeer trapping system in the melting Norwegian ice. Cold weather 4,600 feet up in the mountains preserved the wooden structure remarkably well. Along ...

The Mississippian culture was already in decline before Columbus, Cahokia having been abandoned several generations prior, and their religious and political system was fragmenting to the point that ...