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Conservation Convergence: Two Women One Path Open
We joined forces as both sought to understand the Maya Forest landscape and both had connections to the archaeology of Belize. As an archeologist with a deep commitment to conservation and community development and as a community leader en…
A biocultural hypothesis of human–environment mediations and biodiversity increase Open
Summary The relationship between ecosystem disturbance and biodiversity levels has been a central focus of ecological research for the past half-century. The intermediate disturbance hypothesis, which suggests that maximum biodiversity is …
Chapter 10. Intensification does not require modification: Tropical Swidden and the Maya Open
What is involved in finding fields? Agricultural intensification and its archaeological correlates are not always obvious. Archaeologists frequently equate capital ‐based investment and arable farming as the sole path to intensified produc…
The Milpa Cycle as a Sustainable Ecological Resource Open
Everything utilized by the ancient Maya of lowland Mesoamerica was derived from the resources available and enhanced in their lived landscape: agricultural fields, useful perennials, and habitats of the closed canopy forest. For pre-conque…
Quantitative analyses of wealth inequality at Classic period El Pilar: The Gini index and labor investment Open
Survey teams at the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna have mapped 70 percent of its 20 km 2 area and revealed the extent of settlement around the city center. Large-scale civic architecture, and the distribution of s…
Favored Trees of the Maya Milpa Forest Garden Cycle Open
Comparisons of Maya forest gardens, the economic botany of the Maya forest, and identifications of plant remains in archaeological contexts converge on the value of the Maya forest as the reflection of the selective favoring of useful plan…
Scrutinizing the paleoecological record of the Maya forest Open
Human expansion into and occupation of the New World coincided with the great transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch, yet questions remain about how we detect human presence in the paleoecological record. In the Maya area of…
View article: Ancient Lowland Maya neighborhoods: Average Nearest Neighbor analysis and kernel density models, environments, and urban scale
Ancient Lowland Maya neighborhoods: Average Nearest Neighbor analysis and kernel density models, environments, and urban scale Open
Many humans live in large, complex political centers, composed of multi-scalar communities including neighborhoods and districts. Both today and in the past, neighborhoods form a fundamental part of cities and are defined by their spatial,…
New light on the use of <i>Theobroma cacao</i> by Late Classic Maya Open
Cacao seeds, Theobroma cacao , provide the basis for a ceremonially important Mesoamerican food. Past efforts to identify cacao in ceramics focused on highly decorative vessel forms associated with elite ceremonial contexts, creating assum…
The Green Deer: Chaya as a Potential Source of Protein for the Ancient Maya Open
Archaeologists have used isotope analysis (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) of the collagen of human bones, as well as knowledge of available nutrients, to infer that the diet of the ancient Maya was drawn from the resources of the Maya forest landscape. T…
Different Ways of Knowing and a Different Ways of Being: On a Path to Reawakening Legacy of the Maya Forest Open
Archaeological projects are in a special position to create unique partnerships, with shared goals and intentions, to development Maya anthropological archaeology. This narrative presents an education outreach project in archaeology invigo…
Beyond the magic wand: methodological developments and results from integrated Lidar survey at the ancient Maya Center El Pilar Open
Large-scale Lidar surveys have revitalized interest in regional settlement studies in the Maya Lowlands. Remotely identified features in Lidar imagery must be verified on the ground, with results of ground-truthing studies forming the basi…
Maya Settlement Patterns at El Pilar: Inventory of the Cultural Resources of the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna: Lidar and New Protocols for Archaeology under the Canopy Open
Population growth, land use, and agricultural needs figure among the prominent issues facing the world today.At a global scale, population growth fuels land-use changes that can lead to deforestation, erosion, and land degradation.All the …
Cook, Suzanne: The Forest of the Lacandon Maya - An Ethnobotanical Guide Open
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