Hunter-gatherers built a massive fish trap in Belize 4000 years ago

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Hunter-gatherers built a massive fish trap in Belize 4000 years ago

Satellite image showing channels that formed part of an ancient fishery, and Mayan sites nearby

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Archaeologists have discovered a massive network of ancient fisheries in Belize constructed by hunter-gatherers some 4000 years ago.

The system of earthen channels exceeds 640 kilometres in length and dates to the Archaic *******, which preceded the emergence of Maya civilisation centuries later. It is the oldest large-scale fish-trapping facility ever recorded in Central America.

“We were all expecting it to date to a ******* of sedentary Maya civilisation,” says

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