Maya Seafaring Technology

The second episode in our new series about Maya seafaring explores the nautical technology of the Maya. Columbus reported seeing a large Maya trading canoe off the cost of present-day Honduras. The vast size of the boats that Europeans saw would have demanded technological prowess to build and to sail. Could these stories be true? Recent excavations and artistic depictions are beginning to offer tantalizing clues to the technological seafaring ability of the ancient Maya.

Learn more in this installment as told by Dr. Dominique Rissollo, from the Qualcom Institute at the University of California, San Diego.!