BBC: Maya's ingenious secret to survival
August 9, 2021
UC researchers discover evidence of water filtration in ancient Maya city of Tikal.
August 9, 2021
UC researchers discover evidence of water filtration in ancient Maya city of Tikal.
August 4, 2021
The Washington Post's KidsPost features University of Cincinnati research in the ancient Maya city of Tikal that found evidence of ancient natural parks at reservoirs.
November 6, 2020
International news media highlight UC archaeologists' discovery of advanced water filtration system in ancient Maya city.
August 6, 2020
A study by experts across disciplines at UC found that ancient Maya reservoirs in Tikal were polluted with toxic cyanobacteria and mercury, which likely hastened the demise of the ancient city during droughts. UC biology professor David Lentz tells Cincinnati Edition the findings could help explain the mystery of why people abandoned the city.
November 9, 2020
Weekend Edition's Scott Simon interviews UC researchers who discovered that the ancient Maya used sophisticated water filtration system at Tikal.
June 25, 2021
Ancient Origins highlights UC research at the ancient Maya city of Tikal that found evidence of trees and wild vegetation growing along two reservoirs.
November 1, 2021
The Associated Press highlights UC research at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, that found evidence suggesting people cultivated crops to live there year round.
March 21, 2022
The CBC highlighted UC's use of DNA analysis to understand what crops and wild plants thrived in the ancient Maya city of Tikal.
July 20, 2021
UC assistant professor Dieter Vanderelst in UC's College of Arts and Sciences and College of Engineering and Applied Science digitally compressed the echoes of Mexican free-tailed bats and found they lost little valuable information.
November 2, 2020
UC paleoecologist Joshua Miller and doctoral student Abby Kelly talk to Smithsonian about a rare mummified steppe bison found in Alaska that could improve our understanding of life on Earth 28,000 years ago.