Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series

Over the past twenty years, archaeologists have come to realize that far from being a cultural backwater, the northern lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula were integral to the development of the ancient Maya civilization. Communities constructed humongous platform mounds around the edges of the hilly Puuc Region as early as 800 B.C., at the same time that some intrepid settlers established the first farming villages within the Puuc Region itself. These early agriculturalists needed to develop...