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Ancient Cities of Guatemala’s Pacific Coast

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Free 2026 Gordon R. Willey Series Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Associate Professor, Yale University On Guatemala’s western Pacific coast, the region of Escuintla is home to many ancient cities, and for thousands of years it has...

Video: Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life

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Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities in the world over 1,500 years ago, stands today as a premier archaeological site and a powerful symbol of Mexico’s precolonial heritage. Despite its enduring fame and millions of annual visitors, much remains...

Video-Rethinking Maya Heritage: Past and Present

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Transcript The 2022 Gordon R. Willey Lecture The story of Maya culture as a once-great civilization that built towering pyramids in the jungles of Central America was developed and popularized by national governments, anthropologists, and archaeologists...

Rethinking Maya Heritage: Past and Present

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2022 Gordon R. Willey Lecture The story of Maya culture as a once-great civilization that built towering pyramids in the jungles of Central America was developed and popularized by national governments, anthropologists, and archaeologists. Previously...

Video: Teotihuacan and the Making of a World City

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In the first century CE, Teotihuacan became the capital of the area known today as Central Mexico. The city grew to include 100,000 people, drawing immigrants from Western Mexico, the Valley of Oaxaca, Veracruz, and the Maya region. Deborah Nichols will...