Evidence unearthed in the lowlands of Guatemala suggests that hunter-gatherers and the ancient Maya culture's less mobile settlers worked together during a transitional period that lasted for hundreds of years. The findings, published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge the view that mobile and sedentary cultures lived apart, and that public monuments are built only after a culture settles down.
"Our study presents the first relatively concrete evidence that mobile and sedentary people came together to build a ceremonial center," University of Arizona archaeologist Takeshi Inomata said in a news release.
Read MoreThe Rev. Emily Gage chose not to take what happened shortly after she started at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple as an omen. “Right after I began, in the fall of '08, a giant piece of ceiling fell down right above the pulpit,” she said.
This compromise of the building's integrity did not happen during a Sunday service. No one was hurt. And life with Unity Temple, Wright's modernist masterpiece in Oak Park and a mixed blessing of a structure if ever there were one, went on.
Read MoreThe National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is launching a national multilingual campaign to promote acceptance of LGBT individuals in Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
Read MoreThere was something otherworldly about being on The 606. Images came to mind of new-world structures like Rem Koolhaas’ McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT and the concrete and stainless steel tube enclosing the Green Line track that passes over the building, and Helmut Jahn’s adjacent student dormitory, as did childhood images of the Jetson’s futuristic lifestyle. At other moments along the trail I felt a backwards pull, to medieval, walled cities, where passage along ramparts is cheek-by-jowl with residential quarters and cathedrals.
Read MoreAlphawood Foundation today announced a series of staff changes and additions.
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