Harrison-Buck and her colleagues calculated that at its peak, the system could have produced enough fish each year to feed around 15,000 people. That’s based on modern estimates of how many kilograms of fish people eat every year, combined with measurements of how many kilograms of fish people in Zambia harvest with similar traps. Of […]
Researchers doing reconnaissance in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary CTWS where they discovered evidence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Credit: Belize River East Archaeology (BREA) Project An archaeologist from the University of New Hampshire and her team have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Discovered in the Crooked […]
For what it’s worth, some takes: The only real punchline in it was four words long—“You can open doors”—but Harris made those four words land hard. People on both the right and left will knock the Vice President for goofing around with Maya Rudolph on SNL as part of her closing argument in the final […]
Laser surveys have revealed a massive centuries-old Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The city contains up to 6,674 structures, including pyramids like the ones at Chichén Itzá and Tikalaccording to a study published Tuesday (Oct. 29) in the journal Antiquity. The researchers used previously created lidar (light detection and ranging) maps, which are created […]
Ancient buildings and landscape modifications—including public plazas, agricultural terraces, and field walls—blanket uplands. Credit: Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6,674 undiscovered Maya structures, including pyramids like those at the famous sites of Chichén Itzá or Tikal. “For the longest time, our sample […]
Dana Carvey will never miss an opportunity to have a chaotic Saturday Night Live moment. The comedian revealed on a recent episode of the Superfly podcastwhich he co-hosts with David Spade, that smashing an ice cream cone in Maya Rudolph‘s face during last week’s cold open was completely unplanned. “The ice cream cone was not […]
It’s no surprise that Saturday Night Live‘s milestone 50th season kicked off with a focus on one of the most highly-anticipated events… the upcoming 2024 presidential election. The new batch of political candidates was revealed during Saturday night’s cold open, with Maya Rudolph starring as Kamala Harris, Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz, Dana Carvey as […]
