Naachtun Archaeological Site And Archeology Work In Guatemala Editorial Image

Archaeologists walk on a jungle trail in the Naachtun Archaeological site located in the Dos Lagunas Two Lagoons Biological Preserve, in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve in Northeast Peten, in Guatemala. Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. Naachtun is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, situated at the northeastern perimeter of the Mirador Basin region in the southern Maya lowlands, now in the modern-day Department of El Petén, northern Guatemala.