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ancient agricultural systems
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Boundary Walls
Bursera Simaruba
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Central Maya Lowlands
Citrus Aurantifolia
Constructional Costs
Dry Season Precipitation
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intensive Maya farming practices
landscape modification
Late Preclassic
Maya Agriculture
Maya archaeology
Maya Area
Maya Lowlands
Maya Mountains
modern prehistory
Mollic Epipedon
pre-Columbian land use
Quintana Roo
Rio Bec
Rubble Fill
Seasonal Tropical Forests
Site Specific Variables
slope cultivation techniques
slopeland agricultural growth
Southern Quintana Roo
southern Yucatan Peninsula
Swidden Cultivation
Terminal Classic
Terrace Fill
Transportation Network
tropical forest lands
Tropical Wet Dry Climate
Upland Forest
Yucatan Peninsula research
Product details
- ISBN 9780367281892
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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My interest in ancient Maya agriculture began late in the year of 1971 when William M. Denevan encouraged me to pursue the topic. Our interests had been perked by reports from Joseph W. Ball, JaCk Eaton, and Irwin Rovner of the presence of terrace-like features throughout the Rio Bee region of the soutnern Yucatan Peninsula. Denevan maintained a long-term interest in pre-Hispanic agriculture and population in the New World. Our studies with the emerging Rio Bee research group at the University of Wisconsin led to the conclusion that the then dominant themes of Maya agriculture were in need of reevaluation and that a number of remains of intensive forms of agriculture were likely to be found in the Central Maya lowlands of Mexico, Peten (Guatemala), and Belize, particularly wetland or raised fields in addition to the reported terraces. Our interests were heightened at this time by notification from Alfred Siemens of the finds of wetland fields in the vicinity of the Rio Bee region in the Chetumal, Mexico-northern Belize area.
Dr. B. L. Turner II is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. His special interest is cultural ecology.
