Agriculture was long thought to be the biggest contributing factor toward the development of civilization in ancient ...

Earthen channels directed fish into ponds that formed seasonally, providing a dietary bounty for Maya civilizations starting around 4,000 years ago.

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant ...

UVM anthropologist Marieka Brouwer Burg was part of a team that made the surprising discovery of an early fish-trapping ...

The fishers were harvesting enough fish to feed up to 15,000 people a year. Aerial scans of the Yucatan Peninsula in South America have uncovered a gigantic 4,000-year-old fishery in Belize, which ...

Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary (CTWS), the largest inland wetland in Belize, the team dated the construction of these fisheries to the Late Archaic period (cal. 2000-1900 BCE ...

Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary (CTWS), the largest inland wetland in Belize, the team dated the construction of these fisheries to the Late Archaic period (cal. 2000-1900 BCE ...

In the largest inland wetland in Belize, Central America, with drones and Good Earth, New Hampshire researchers conducted tests on a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. At first, they ...

An extensive network of ancient fish traps, dating back 4,000 years, was discovered in the wetlands of Belize's Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary. The findings, published Friday in the journal ...

Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary, the largest inland wetland in Belize, the facility involved the construction of a network of canals to channel annual flood waters into ponds for ...