2,800-Year-Old Face-Down Burial With Turtle-Shaped Vessel Found in El Salvador
Archaeologists excavating beneath a residential area in El Salvador have uncovered a pre-Hispanic burial that may date to around 850 B.C. The grave was discovered…
Preclassic period
A 2,700-Year-Old Figurine from Guatemala May Preserve Mesoamerica’s Earliest Numbers
Mesoamerica’s earliest numbers may have survived on something far smaller than a monument. A fragmentary ceramic figurine found at La Blanca, on Guatemala’s Pacific coast,…