Archaeology

Yarumela, in La Paz department, holds evidence of organized human presence dating to around 1000 BCE, serving as a political and ceremonial capital during the Formative period with astronomical alignments and trade networks reaching Mexico and the Caribbean.

A storm exposed the ancient bones of a giant sloth in San Esteban, Olancho, prompting a joint excavation by Honduras's Institute of Anthropology and History and U.S. Fulbright paleontologist Greg McDonald.