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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Canals Used to Trap Fish in Belize 4,000 Years AgoPre-Maya hunter-gatherers built the system in Central America in response to a drought between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E., ...
Archaeologists working in Central America have discovered a series of fishing-catching canals made by pre-Columbian Mayan ...
Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s ...
THEY SAY THIS FISH TRAPPING FACILITY DATES BACK TO BEFORE THE MAYAN ERA. THE TEAM USED DRONES AND GOOGLE EARTH IMAGERY TO FIND THE NETWORK OF 4000 YEAR OLD CANALS. THEY THINK THEY WERE USED TO ...
The fish-trapping canals, built around 2000 BCE, continued to be used by their Mayan descendants until around 200 CE. "This is the earliest large-scale Archaic fish-trapping facility recorded in ...
The team then conducted digs in Belize’s Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary. The ancient fish canals, paired with holding ponds, were used to channel and catch freshwater species such as catfish.
A team of archaeologists from the University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire, and others have discovered a ...
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