Archaeologists have found an enormous community of historical fisheries in Belize constructed by hunter-gatherers some 4000 years in the past.
The system of earthen channels exceeds 640 kilometres in size and dates to the Archaic Interval, which preceded the emergence of Maya civilisation centuries later. It’s the oldest large-scale fish-trapping facility ever recorded in Central America.
“We have been all anticipating it thus far to a interval of sedentary Maya civilisation,” says Eleanor Harrison-Buck…