The skeleton of a 1,700-year-old spider monkey found in Teotihuacán. Photo: Nawa Sugiyama, UC Riverside. Archaeologists working on the Plaza of Columns Complex site at Teotihuacán have made a ...

Around A.D. 275, an unlikely emissary arrived in the central Mexican city of Teotihuacan. A group of Maya brought a spider monkey as an exotic gift to help establish a formal relationship with the ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

This handout image provided by Nawa Sugiyama of the University of California Riverside on November 21, 2022, shows the complete skeletal remains of a 1,700 year old ...

Seventeen hundred years ago, a female spider monkey was presented as a treasured gift – and later brutally sacrificed – to strengthen ties between two major powers of pre-Hispanic America, according ...

Spider monkeys don’t live anywhere near the central Mexican highlands, including the area around what’s now Mexico City, once the home of Teotihuacan. So when University of California, Riverside, ...

Seventeen hundred years ago, a female spider monkey was presented as a treasured gift — and later sacrificed — to strengthen ties between two major powers of pre-Hispanic America, a new study said on ...