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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arlen and Diane Chase, archaeologists at the University of Central Florida, believe their work at Caracol, in present-day Belize, also shows that escalating warfare was largely responsible for that ancient city's abrupt extinction. Among the evidence they cite: burn marks on buildings, the uncharacteristically unburied body of a six-year-old child lying on the floor of a pyramid, and an increase in war imagery on late monuments and pottery. "Of course we found weapons too," says Arlen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Secrets of the Maya | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...argument over how to interpret Maya writing -- along with arguments over just about every other aspect of Maya archaeology -- won't be resolved anytime soon. New discoveries are constantly reinventing the conventional wisdom. At Caracol, for example, the Chases have uncovered an unprecedented 74 relic- filled tombs; their location, in living areas, supports the idea of ancestor worship, and the number of burial chambers provides evidence, the Chases think, that the Maya had a large, prosperous "middle class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Secrets of the Maya | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...after Australia's, the largest coral barrier reef in the world. It was also one of the great centers of Mayan civilization. Ruins -- still largely unrestored, insufficiently studied and besieged by tomb robbers -- dot the lowland forests: the pyramids of Xunantunich and Altun Ha and the vast complex of Caracol, which in the 6th to 7th centuries was the rival of Tikal, across the Guatemalan border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blissing Out in Balmy Belize | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...Caracol Radio in Colombia, however, reported there were 151 people aboard, but did not differentiate between passengers and crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Airplane Crashes Near Kennedy Airport | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

...Extraditables group, made up of drug traffickers fearing extradition to the United States, claimed responsibility for the bombing in a phone call to the Colombian radio network Caracol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Airplane Crashes Near Kennedy Airport | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

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