The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred
because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical …

With population growth, increasing water demands and climate change the need to
understand the current and future pathways to water security is becoming more pressing. To …

We focus on pre-Columbian agricultural regimes in the Maya Lowlands, using new datasets
of archaeological wood charcoal, seeds, phytoliths, and starch grains; biological properties …

Increasing evidence supports the role of climate change in the disintegration of regional
polities in the Maya lowlands at the end of the Classic Period (750–1000 CE). However, the …

Chichén Itzá dominated the political landscape of the northern Yucatán during the Terminal
Classic Period (AD 800–1000). Chronological details of the rise and fall of this important …

The Mosquitia ecosystem of Honduras occupies the fulcrum between the American
continents and as such constitutes a critical region for understanding past patterns of socio …

Pre-Columbian food production in the Maya Lowlands was long characterized as reliant on
extensive, slash-and-burn agriculture as the sole cultivation system possible in the region …

Ancient Maya agriculture varied across time and space from long-fallow swidden to highly
intensive forms of cultivation. Over time, Maya people devised agricultural systems that were …

The study of ancient Mesoamerican landscapes and settlement has been significantly
impacted in a positive way through the application of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) …

In the twentieth century, an emphasis on generating big models to explain cross‐cultural
similarities and differences, particularly with respect to environmental factors, culminated in …