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From providing fresh water and supporting biodiversity to regulating the climate and sustaining cultural traditions, healthy, free-flowing rivers have always been critical for people and the planet.

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient Mesoamerican people.

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Artists in Mesoamerica chose to use clay for their depictions before clay was used for things like pottery, researchers said in a March 5 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Antiquity. Now, ...

Cacao ceremonies are being performed at yoga studios, meditation centers and sound baths. Here's the story behind this growing trend.

Clay figurines found on top of the remnants of a pyramid in what is now El Salvador might have been used in public ceremonies.