Other objects, such as figurines made of jade from Guatemala and seashells from the Caribbean, indicate how far Teotihuacan’s influence extended. In addition to helping maintain the mercury in ...

Many of the animals found in the burial sites were also apex predators at the top of the local food chain–golden eagles, Mexican gray wolves, hawks, owls, falcons, jaguars, pumas, wolves ...

Most were apex predators, meaning top predators within the food chain. "That's really interesting from the zooarchaeology standpoint because there's a fundamental shift in the ways we know ...