It was the largest urban centre in the southern Mayan lowlands , 19 miles north of Lake Petén Itzá , in what is now the northern part of the region. Tikal was first occupied as a small village ...

a civilization that later came to dominate the Maya Lowlands in Central America and modern-day southern Mexico. These fish-trapping facilities would have encouraged people to gather and develop ...

But new research led by Brandeis anthropologist Charles Golden and Andrew Scherer, associate professor of anthropology at Brown University, found signs that communities in the Western Maya Lowlands of ...