Study counters ideas about Mayan elite craftworks – Research News https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/study-counters-ideas-about-mayan-elite-craftworks/
It’s easy to get carried away romanticizing the cushy lives of the fabulously wealthy, even those who lived in exotic ancient cultures. We may pin all sorts of stereotypes to them: that they employed servants to perform their mundane chores, bought or bartered for everything they needed and never li
Daniela Triadan, co-director of the Aguateca Archaeology Project, and an archaeology professor