Nov 16, 2016
Previous work by Dr. Jon Hageman of Northeastern Illinois University at the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project has resulted in the publication of Mesoamerican Ethnobotanical Database. This is a cool website hosted by the Field Museum in Chicago in which you can explore all the different types of plants that have been used by the Maya in the past and in the present. Take a look!
Heitor Leal Machado and Bayleigh like this.
We know that at La Milpa, the Maya built agricultural terraces. We don't know what they were growing there and why. What were the Maya growing in the city's public center? How do these crops relate to the rise and collapse of a city of 20,000 people by the end of AD900? To try to get to the bottom of this we will be excavating the terraces during the summer of 2017 and testing the surrounding soil for plant remains.
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