Barefoot and draped in the colorful embroidery of traditional Maya huipil garb, 20-year-old Sitlali Yovana Poot Dzib steps up to the plate, wiggling her bat overhead as she faces the pitch. The field ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman purchased a nearly 2,000-year-old Mayan vase at a Maryland thrift store — but didn't realize what she had until she saw a ...

Women and gender in the ancient Maya world / Traci Ardren -- Gender and Maya farming: Chan Nòohol, Belize / Cynthia Robin -- Gender divisions of labor and lowland terrace agriculture / Linda Stephen ...

The presence of the Maya in Belize dates back three millennia, with time-honoured traditions such as pottery and embroidery rooted in rural communities such as San Antonio. Today, Timotea Mesh is ...

Over a period of time, the textbooks typically portray early Maya rulers as male. The women of elite status were typically dismissed as political people, ceremonial figures or wives of royals who ...

Introduction: Mayan women as history -- "Our star and a vision for us" : a midwife's tale of social change and control, 1931-1966 -- "And all the men could do was work in the fields" : feminine ...

Women played key political roles in Maya civilization throughout the 6th and 7th centuries C.E. Archaeologists at the ruins of Cobá, 70 miles from Chichen Itza, have just named another one of those ...

The team is called Las Amazonas de Yaxunah. They've defied gender stereotypes to become sports heroes. And these women and teens play the game... Barefoot and draped in the colorful embroidery of ...