Mary E. D. Pohl and Kevin O. Pope The Maya formed a prime relationship with wetlands, but the dynamic of Maya engagement varied by place and time largely due to environmental change. Ground truthing each locale remains essential. We and our research team have conducted archaeological investigations along the lower courses of the Hondo and…

The great Maya center of Piedras Negras, Guatemala, is justly famous for its sweat baths, which are both numerous and monumental in scale. Eight are known from the site core, most located near palace structures, and Tatiana Proskouriakoff famously imagined how one of these was used (Fig. 1). Figure 1 Proskouriakoff's reconstruction (from Proskouriakoff 1978:29)…