Sunday, January 13, 2008

Ancient Maya Marketplace Discovery May Up-end Conventional Views

Coaxing answers from 1500-year-old clues hidden in soil clumps, BYU environmental scientists identified a marketplace in an ancient Maya city, calling into question archaeologists' widely held belief that people of the era relied on rulers to tax and re-distribute goods, rather than trading them with one another..........

Deseret Morning News

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