A culture excavated
A culture excavated
By Nicole La Hoz
Correspondent
Published: Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 1:42 p.m.
By Nicole La Hoz
Correspondent
Mayan culture developed for more than 3,000 years in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. Tina Choe's goal is to connect that past to present-day Floridians.
“We want people to find parallels between then and today's world,” says Choe, the Florida Museum of Natural History's exhibit developer.
“An Early Maya City by the Sea — Daily Life and Ritual at Cerros, Belize,” the newest exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, showcases items found in Maya excavations for the very first time. It runs through Oct. 7 and is free to the public.
More than 2,800 artifacts excavated in the '70s were donated to the Florida Museum by the Institute of Archaeology in Belize in 2009.
Choe says Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American art at the Florida Museum, wanted to share and highlight 45 of those artifacts that people have never seen before. The items, ranging from miniscule jade beads to foot-long clay plates, are divided into six eras spanning from 350 B.C. to A.D. 1566.
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Cerros, Belize[/center]
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