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52 stories tagged ‘Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’
Jungle ordeal leads to surprise treasure
William Saturno was hot, frustrated, low on food, low on water, and low on patience when he sought shade in a trench dug by looters at the San Bartolo archaeological site deep inside the Guatemalan jungle. The arduous two-day trip there to document carved Mayan hieroglyphics had been in vain. The palace complex held 80-foot-tall [...]
Irene Good is an expert in ancient textiles, a specialist who examines cloth that is ages-old to find out facts about the people who made it. Good has a one-year appointment as the Hrdy Visiting Curator in Anthropology at Harvard. Good’s painstaking analysis of artifacts — such as the nearly 5,000 ancient Peruvian textile pieces [...]
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