Resumen de Land of make-believe
Bawaya investigates whether there is anything wrong with a tropical paradise making money from an invented past. The collection of more than 150 bowls, plates and jars turned up in a closet at the University of South Florida in 2003. Since the boxes were labeled "Maya", Christian Wells, an archaeologist at the university who had worked on a number of Maya sites in Central America, decided to take a look. He found out that the ceramics that were known to have originated from Roatan, an island off the north coast of Honduras, were not Maya. They were, in fact, the handiwork of one of Honduras's other indigenous peoples, the Pech. Over the next year, Wells surveyed roughly half of the island. His excavations revealed that most of Roatan's pre-colonial occupants were Pech. They were later joined by the Garifuna, who are descendants of native and West African people. As for signs of Maya occupation, there were none.
