The Marco Gonzalez Archaeological Project investigates the lives and deaths of Pre-Contact (AD 1 – 1500) Maya in a coastal Maya community in northern Belize. Excavations focused on residential and public architecture show how the settlement grew from a small fishing community to become a center of industrial-scale salt production, and later an important hub in long-distance trade networks. Analyses of the skeletons of many of those who lived at Marco Gonzalez help paint a humanistic picture of everyday life in this small, but once powerful community.

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Sponsored by the North Alabama Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).