Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/March 2016

• ... that the exuberant "Smiling Faces" figurines (pictured) from the Remojadas archaeological site are likely related to the local cult of the dead?
• ... that the earliest known Maya city in the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica dates to around 750 BC?
• ... that the Manche Ch'ol, a Maya people encountered by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1525, were nearly extinct by 1770?