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1 online resource (489 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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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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9781607322801 (e-book) |
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1607322803 (e-book) |
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