Archeology Central America

A team led by archeologist James E. Brady of George Washington University has found at least three burial caves in the region--one in 1992 and two this past summer--as well as an enormous underground gathering place that the team dubbed "the Superdome of caves" and another cave apparently used for religious rites.

The banks of the Talgua River were not a good place to build a village. Powered by the intense rainfall of the Mosquitia jungle, the ferocious Honduran river periodically escapes its banks, scouring away the last traces of any dwellings that humans may have had the temerity to erect.

The banks of the Talgua River were not a good place to build a village. Powered by the intense rainfall of the Mosquitia jungle, the ferocious Honduran river periodically escapes its banks, scouring away the last traces of any dwellings that humans may have had the temerity to erect.

A team led by archeologist James E. Brady of George Washington University has found at least three burial caves in the region--one in 1992 and two this past summer--as well as an enormous underground gathering place that the team dubbed "the Superdome of caves" and another cave apparently used for religious rites.

In a move to reduce pillaging and illicit export of Central America's archeological treasures, President Clinton's U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee met Wednesday with ministers of culture from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize and Costa Rica at the Getty Conservation Institute in Brentwood.

In a move to reduce pillaging and illicit export of Central America's archeological treasures, President Clinton's U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee met Wednesday with ministers of culture from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize and Costa Rica at the Getty Conservation Institute in Brentwood.