July 14, 2008 | Pulitzer Center
Donate NowWe came to northern Guatemala, and slogged through the mud for two days straight, to find out whether there was anything to the claims that archaeology could help save a Rhode Island-size chunk of roadless tropical forest.
The answer, in short, is yes, there's something to it. But there's no assurance that the archaeologists' vision will work out the way they want it to. It all depends on their ability to tell the world about the cultural riches that remain buried beneath the jungle floor, and whether they can make peace with constituencies that have very different ideas about how to promote sustainable development ...