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"In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750-1050), were not caused solely b...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Iannone, Gyles (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2014.
Temas:
Mayas > History.
Mayas > Social conditions.
Mayas > Antiquities.
Droughts > Central America > History.
Ethnoecology > Central America.
Human beings > Effect of climate on > Central America.
Crops > Central America > Effect of drougt on.
Environmental archaeology > Central America.
Social archaeology > Central America.
Mayas > Histoire.
Mayas > Conditions sociales.
Mayas > Antiquités.
Sécheresses > Amérique centrale > Histoire.
Ethnoécologie > Amérique centrale.
Êtres humains > Influence du climat > Amérique centrale.
Archéologie de l'environnement > Amérique centrale.
Archéologie sociale > Amérique centrale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Antiquities
Droughts
Environmental archaeology
Human beings > Effect of climate on
Ethnoecology
Mayas
Mayas > Antiquities
Mayas > Social conditions
Social archaeology
Central America > Antiquities.
Central America
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Resilience, vulnerability, and the study of socioecological dynamics / Gyles Iannone
  • The dynamics of ancient Maya developmental history / James Aimers and Gyles Iannone
  • Assessing the great Maya droughts : some critical issues / Gyles Iannone, Jason Yaeger, and David Hodell
  • Agricultural landscapes, deforestation, and drought severity / Robert Griffin, Robert Oglesby, Thomas Sever, and Udaysankar Nair
  • Climate change in the ancient Maya forest : resilience and adaptive management across millennia / Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh
  • The end of the beginning : drought, environmental change, and the Preclassic to Classic transition in the east-central Maya lowlands / Nicholas Dunning, David Wahl, Timothy Beach, John Jones, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, and Carmen McCane
  • A tale of three cities : effects of the AD 536 event in the lowland Maya heartland / Bruce H. Dahlin and Arlen F. Chase
  • Collapse without drought : warfare, settlement, ecology, and site abandonment in the Middle Pasion region / Matt O'Mansky
  • The Classic Maya collapse, water, and economic change in Mesoamerica : critique and alternatives from the "wet zone" / Arthur A. Demarest
  • Water in the West : chronology and collapse of the Classic Maya river kingdoms / Andrew K. Scherer and Charles Golden
  • Oxygen isotopes from Maya archaeological deer remains : experiments in tracing droughts using bones / Antoine Repussard, Henry P. Schwarcz, Kitty F. Emery, and Erin Kennedy Thornton
  • The prehistoric Maya of northern Belize : issues of drought and cultural transformations / Fred Valdez and Vernon Scarborough
  • An archaeological consideration of long-term socioecological dynamics on the Vaca Plateau, Belize / Gyles Iannone, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Jaime Awe, Holley Moyes, George Brook, Jason Polk, James Webster, and James Conolly
  • Tracking climate change in the ancient Maya world through zooarchaeological habitat analyses / Kitty F. Emery and Erin Kennedy Thornton
  • Maya drought and niche inheritance / David Webster.

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