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"Deep in the wilds of southern Mexico lies a river canyon surrounded by a jungle so forbidding that it was one of the last untouched archaeological sites in the world, which proved to be the location of a lost civilization." "In 1997, an international group of archaeologists ventured into the Chiapas region of Mexico to search for the remains of a little-known civilization that preceded the Maya. In caves hundreds of feet above the Rio la Venta, and in an ancient complex swallowed by the jungle, the team found astonishing archaeological treasures." "The Maya are often credited with inventing the first complex writing system on the American continent, but recent archeology shows that a little-known people called the Zoque developed a sophisticated script long before the Maya. Who were the Zoque? Were they responsible for such technological advances as a calendrical system and sophisticated numerical systems?" "Some 300 caves carved into canyon walls in the Rio la Venta Gorge, located in the Chiapas jungle in Central America, may hold some answers. The relative inaccessibility and extreme dryness of the caves have preserved clothes, rope, and wooden implements -- artifacts that rarely survive in Central America. NOVA follows a team of archeologists as they uncover artifacts that could reveal new understandings about the Zoque and their place in Mesoamerican history." -- NOVA |
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Tullio Bernobei (cave expert) Andrea Drusini (physical anthropologist) Thomas Lee (archaeologist) Eliseo Linares Villanueva (Mexican archeologist) Giuseppe Orefici (expedition leader) Luigi Piacenza (paleobotanist)
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