Classic Maya history is embedded in commoners' homes

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 11:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

They were illiterate farmers, builders and servants, but Maya commoners found a way to record their own history -- by burying it within their homes. A new study of the objects embedded in the floors of homes occupied more than 1,000 years ago in central Belize begins to decode their story.

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