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Rock shelter, Bladen Nature Reserve, Belize(Keith M. Prufer)
Maya processing maize, Santa Cruz, Belize(Keith M. Prufer)
According to a new study, more than half of the modern Maya genome is derived from ancient populations who migrated to the Yucatán Peninsula from southern Central America and South America at least 5,600 years ago. A team led by archaeologist Keith Prufer of the University of New Mexico, geneticist David Reich of Harvard University, and archaeologist Douglas Ke
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