Aventura Archaeology Site
Aventura is an ancestral Maya city in Belize, Central America. For over five millennia, Aventura’s fertile soils and watery landscape attracted ancestral Maya to build homes, a community, and a city. During the Late Classic period (600-800 CE) Aventura was the paramount city in its region.
Across Aventura’s history, there were periods of climate change and drought, political turbulence, shifting trade routes, European invasion, and colonialism. Through all of this, Aventura’s residents were resilient.
Find more information about the Aventura Archaeology Project:
- Learn about the Aventura Archaeology Project and its funding.
- Access our publications, including books, dissertations, articles and book chapters.
- Meet Aventura’s international multidisciplinary research team.