This page is updated regularly to announce news related to archaeology and ethnology in Mesoamerica and South America. Past news are archived in the following pages. Do you know other relevent news? Send us the link: news@mayafiles.com

March 10, 2006 Columbus mystery nearly solved 500 years after death
March 9, 2006 Did humans devastate Easter Island on arrival?

March 8, 2006 Elaborate cave paintings stun scientists

March 4, 2006 Ejercito ha destruido unas 18 pistas clandestinas en Guatemala

March 1, 2006 First Amazon-Andean crop plant transfer and corn processing in Peru 3600-4000 years ago

Exhibitions, conferences and excavations

Mike Ruggeri, Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Lectures and Conferences
FAMSI, Calendar of events
    MESOWEB, Events and announcements    CSMS, News and announcements
About Archaeology, Field Schools and Scheduled Excavations in Central America
, South America

Recent publications on the Maya

June 2006 Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost
May 2006 Mas que un indio: Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala

April 2006 The Maya Vase Conservation Project

January 2006 Lost Empires: Ancient Aztec and Maya

October 2005 The Mayas

September 2005 Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship

July 2005 Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World

June 2005 Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800

May 2005 Unconquered Lacandon Maya: Ethnohistory and Archaeology of Indigenous Culture Change

April 2005 Copan: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom

March 2005 Maya Folktales From The Alta Verapaz

February 2005 In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use

January 2005 In Search Of Maya Sea Traders