Buried in ash, ancient Salvadoran village shows images of daily life

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 17:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A continuing look at a Maya village in El Salvador–frozen in time by a blanket of volcanic ash from 1,400 years ago–shows the farming families who lived there went about their daily lives with virtually no strong-arming by the elite royalty lording over the valley. Instead, archaeological evidence indicates significant interactions at the village of […]

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