Recent Posts
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S3 E4 260 Days in Mesoamerica
The 260 day calendar of Mesoamerica is its oldest and most enduring measurement of time. In this episode I’ll explain how it works, what it means to modern Maya people, […]
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S3 E3 The Mogollon
The Mogollon are a little known ancient civilization of the American Southwest. But you probably know them and just don’t know you know them, you know? And if you really […]
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S2 E5 Ma’ax Na Part 2 and Other Tales
Part 2 of the Ma’ax Na story. My 3rd and 4th seasons of mapping adventures at the site, plus other stories about what happened in my early archaeology career in […]
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S2 E4 How I Discovered Ma’ax Na
In 1995, I discovered a lost ancient Maya City in the jungles of Northwestern Belize and named it Ma’ax Na. This podcast is the story of how I did it.
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S2 E3 New World Contact Epidemics
The moment of contact between Europe and the Americas in the 15th century brought with it a host of infectious diseases. The result was the spread of epidemics at a […]
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S2 E2 The Inca Khipu
The Inca Khipu – knotted string records of the Inca Empire. The amazingly organized Inca civilization of over 10 million people was kept running smoothly through the use of the […]
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S2 E1 Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon is without doubt the finest ancient architecture within the modern United States. The Ancestral Pueblo built it over a 300 year period between 850-1150 CE, but the strange […]
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S1 E6 De Soto was a Psycho
From 1539 to 1542, Hernando de Soto led an army of Spanish conquistadors through what is now the southeastern United States. What his men saw and documented during those three […]