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Albion Island
Ambrosia Pollen
Author_Mary Deland Pohl
Category=JHM
ceramic typology
Chetumal Bay
cultural ecology
Custard Apple
Eastern Channel
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High Bush
Holocene environmental change
Hondo Rivers
intensive agriculture
Late Preclassic
Late Preclassic Period
Maya Lowlands
Maya wetland agriculture
Middle Preclassic
Northern Belize
paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Pit 2X
Pollen Assemblage
Preclassic Period
prehistoric Maya agricultural systems
prehistoric Maya cultivation
Raised Fields
ridged fields
Rio Azul
Rio Hondo
Sea Water
settlement pattern studies
soil analysis
Terminal Classic
tropical forest environment
Unit IX
Unit VI
Wetland Agriculture
Wetland Cultivation
Wetland Field
Product details
- ISBN 9780367160470
- Weight: 870g
- Dimensions: 145 x 221mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Changes in the orientation of archaeological research in the post-World War n period affected Maya studies. The cultural ecological perspective, which was rising to prominence, put an old debate in bold relief: How had this prehistoric civilization adapted to the tropical forest environment? How could swidden cultivation have sustained the unexpectedly high population densities that settlement pattern studies appeared to be revealing? Had the ancient Maya practiced some from of intensive agriculture? Archaeologist Dennis E. Puleston went to the Maya Lowlands to investigate geographer Alfred H. Siemens's reports of possible intensive agriculture ("ridged fields") seen from the air and to study prehistoric Maya cultivation and civilization from a cultural ecological perspective. This volume presents the results of the Rio Hondo Project field research on Albion Island in northern Belize from 1973 to 1980 with the addition of selected results from Pohl's continuing work in northern Belize.
