A New Maya Kingdom, What's an Anchoress? And paving over Miami's history - Ep 205

On today’s news episode we start with another Maya Kingdom found just sitting under some bushes in the jungle. OK, it’s a LOT of bushes. Then we move over to the UK and learn more about a skeleton that’s been in the University of Sheffield’s collection since the early 2000’s. Finally we talk about why the people of Miami keep letting developers dig up and pave over their most important cultural resources.

Links

• Vast Maya Kingdom Is Revealed in Guatemalan Jungle (Wall Street Journal)
• LiDAR analyses in the contiguous Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala: an introduction to new perspectives on regional early Maya socioeconomic and political organization (Cambridge open access)
• Mysterious skeleton revealed to be that of unusual lady anchoress of York Barbican (University of Sheffield)
• The All Saints Anchoress? An Osteobiography (Medieval Archaeology, abstract only)
• Is Miami really going to keep letting developers pave over our most ancient sites?

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