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Guatemalan sites yield Maya insights

By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

Excavations at three sites in Guatemala’s Petén rain forest have revealed previously unknown facets of both the early and later stages of ancient Maya civilization.

JARRING FINDS. Francisco Estrada-Belli holds one of five jade axes found at the Preclassic-Maya site of Cival. Jade pebbles and pottery shards surround the axes.